Tragic Events/Talk

This page is for discussing the contents of Tragic Events.

I've tried to make this page a bit more readable, since half of the page was just headers before. One thing remains, because I didn't quite know what to do with it: the Publicized Animal Deaths section. Should animal deaths be grouped with human deaths? Should animal deaths be limited to publicized ones? Should there be a corresponding place where people can memorialize pets they've lost? And finally, should the place be within the Tragic Events set of pages? If so, a rewrite of the intro is probably warranted, since it's focused on humans within and connected to the Davis community. —TomGarberson

• Given the amount of animal lovers in Davis, I think that animal tragedies are appropriate for listing on the page. For several Davisites I've met, the death of a beloved pet is just as traumatizing as a human death. I don't mind, however, if animals are put in a separate sub-category just to avoid confusion. If people want to memorialize their pets on this page even if not publicized, I find that personally acceptable. Just one opinion. -SM
  

• I agree. Should there be one category for animal deaths containing both publicized ones and, for lack of a better term, personal ones? —tg
  

• Ermm, I dunno, to be honest. I wish I had an opinion on that but I really don't. Hopefully someone else who is more personally invested will chime in. -SM
  

As a separate point, I tried writing up a little blurb that could go at the top of each of the sub-pages to tie them together a little more organically than just linking Tragic Events without any context. I thought it might be worth getting some input on it before copying it over to all the pages, so that any changes only need to be made once. Please edit/discuss. —tg

Below are some of the tragic deaths that have occurred in Davis, as well as those of Davis residents, students, and employees who died outside of Davis. Others are remembered elsewhere in the Tragic Events Memorial.


For a moment I thought there was a memorial located in davis —BruceHansen

Generally speaking and without other considerations, it would be more progressive to put people and animals together. -bh

I'm not quite sure what "more progressive" means. Would it be better for the wiki as a resource to the community? —tg


For now, there's this entry about the monkeys. It should be headed Animal Deaths. A Publicized category may come later. For now Animal Deaths can stay on this page. -bh


• Works for me! -SM
  

All of these events are deaths. The page should be renamed Tragic Deaths. There might at some time be other tragic events than tragic deaths mentioned on Tragic Events.

To make the items easier to read, barring making headings, they could be bolded and double spaced. -bh

Greg's recent edits provide a great illustration of the utility of a Semantic Wiki. Just change a few queries here and there and everything is rejiggered appropriately. Is this on the LocalWiki roadmap? —WilliamLewis

This is probably the next feature Mike / I work on. Some details here. The first pass is just making it happen as a replacement for the infobox-y tables on every single page, exposing it via an API (for iPhone apps, etc). Then we'll add a search interface, then some kind of query interface for embedding in pages. The trick with this stuff is keeping it really simple. I'm not sure how this page would work under our initial planned implementation, as our "atomic unit" of structured data relation will be a page (which keeps things pretty simple, but would be hard to re-order, say, subheadings here unless each tragic event was its own page) Feel free to add thoughts / ideas / anything to that page there - nobody's started coding on this yet. —PhilipNeustrom