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muyongshi -

I'm just looking at this article and thinking "Is there really anyway to write a wiki on living in
China???" I mean come on really! I think it should be broken down into smaller subsections but
even then it is hard because every location is different...

Any ideas on a good way to do this? To have it both completely informative and completely
relevant...



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gato -

There are many possibilities. One way is to have articles divided by topics, such as shopping,
renting an apartment, finding a soulmate, etc. Another is to divide the articles by cities. I
think it might be better to take the topic approach as there is a lot of overlaps between cities.










roddy -

This is a fair point. What I have been thinking about is coming up with a broad template for quick
city guides, aimed at people who will be living in the city, with a focus on students. Ie

City Name
Orientation (Size, layout, where are the universities in relation to the rest of the city)
Public transport (particularly getting from universities to areas of interest)
Shopping: Major supermarkets, foreign language books, Chinese learning material
Studying: Quick rundown of the universities / schools in the city
Bars / cafes:
Restaurants: (just a few notable ones, obviously can't cover every 家常菜 in town.
etc . . .

That could obviously be expanded a bit, although I wouldn't want it to get too comprehensive. The
idea would be that people would look at the template and think 'Hey, I can do that. It'll only
take 10 minutes', rather than feeling they have to commit to a week of research and writing.










muyongshi -

Well there is two ideas....










muyongshi -

What if we do both? We can do one Article called city guide and then also do articles by topic.

For the city guide what I was thinking was if we just do one article and then set it up like the
Visa section with a list at the top divided by province and then a clickable link that will take
you to a specified city within that province. That way it is all in one place and we don't have
cities floating all over cyber world.










md1101 -

can we not create a wiki entry until we actually have something to put in it? I keep clicking on
them and finding them all empty. One city guide is enough to give people the idea to write one up
for a city they know. they dont need encouragement by empty posts.










gato -

You got a point there, md.

Also maybe Roddy can create a sub-folder for the city guides so that they don't clutter up the
"Living in China" page.










cdn_in_bj -

Firstly, thanks Roddy and the rest of you for getting this in motion. I know we are just starting
out but I am sure that overtime it will evolve into something great and extremely useful.



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What if we do both? We can do one Article called city guide and then also do articles by topic.

I agree with this approach. My thought was that we could have general topics, for example, the
Visa article, and from this article we can then provide links to region-specific information. For
example, have a link to an article in the Beijing section that talks about the place by Andingmen
where you go to do your visa stuff.

Also, while editing the "Renting an apartment" page I ran into the 10000 character limit. Any
thoughts on if this limit should be raised (if that is even possible), or how we should organize
the articles to keep them under the limit?










roddy -

The character limit can be raised - personally I'm inclined to say that as a rule we'd be better
off breaking stuff into smaller articles when we hit the limit, or doing some ruthless editing,
but I know I'm isolated and out of touch with the kidz, so . . .










gato -

Maybe setting 20000 characters as a limit would be better. 10000 characters is roughly 1500 words,
a fairly small number. The apartment article isn't all that long yet. Guess we should split off
the location-specific info into other articles. Roddy should think of a way to present all these
off-shoot articles, if that's what we are going to do. Maybe separate folder/section, as I
mentioned before. Or maybe cross references -- e.g. apartment guide linking to guides for
individual cities.












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