Talk:Recorded Text Testing
Tying all the RTT stuff together -- Admin 01:13, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
What we've got so far on RTT is absolutely great. What we need to do before we get too much content is think about the overall structure so that we can set in place some ways to help people navigate through it all by tying it all together.
You may have noticed the little boxes that I've put on the top right of the word list pages to help people navigate the tools and word list sections. These are templates that I've already created which can just be reused with a simple piece of code thus:
{{data_collection_tools}} produces the box at the right
| Data Collection Tools | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Interviews | |
| Observation | |
| Questionnaires | |
| Recorded Text Testing | |
| Sentence Repetition Testing | |
| Word Lists | |
| Participatory Methods | |
| Matched-Guise |
and
{{word_list_steps}} produces the box below it
| Word Lists | |
|---|---|
| Preparing a Word List | |
| Collecting Word List Data | |
| Analyzing Word List Data | |
| Interpreting Word List Data | |
| Tips from the Field |
The double curly brackets {{sometemplatename}} signify a template that you've already created before. You can create any content as a template and that can be reused anywhere. Each template has it's own page so the Data Collection Tools box was created by making the Template:data_collection_tools page and then adding content into it (which I actually copied from a Wikipedia template). Then, all I have to do is add {{data_collection_tools}} to any page and I get it inserted automatically.
Another way to organise content is to use categories which we add at the bottom of each page thus:
[[Category:Category_Name]]
We can add as many categories as we want but it's best to keep them kind of general and not get too specific and risk only having one page in a category. An example of one category page that we have working is [[Category:Glossary]] which is added to the bottom of each page that is dedicated to defining a term. When we visit the Glossary page, we can see the entire list of terms so it acts like an index. We could do the same for RTTs so that every page relating to RTTs is tagged [[Category:RTTs]]
Either way is good and doing both is probably best!
- That sounds like a great way to organize everything. I just put together an RTT Outline page with an outline of my plan for the RTT section. I will start to put the skeleton for all this together and add in the boxes. I'll also start using the keyword "outline" for our outlined pages (tricky, I know).
- Katie Crystal 19:07, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
