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| − | Major changes are underway in the system of referencing to the Bible within WikiChristian.
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| − | ==Aim of these changes==
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| − | All up these changes may take a number of weeks or months, so please be patient. The aims are:
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| − | * To have the whole Bible, verse by verse uploaded, so that any verse, chapter or book can be linked to
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| − | ** Example: [[Gospel of John]], [[John 11]], [[John 11:35]]
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| − | * To have a standardized way of referencing to a Bible passage
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| − | ** Example: <nowiki>{{web_verse|john|11|25}}</nowiki> will display: {{web_verse|john|11|25}}
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| − | * To have a system in place, so that adding links within a verse itself will affect the verse where-ever it is displayed
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| − | ** This can be achieved by editing the template for an individual verse such as <nowiki>{{web_verse|john|11|25}}</nowiki>
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| − | ==Technical stuff - skip this if you aren't interested==
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| − | This can be achieved by using templates. [[User:Graham grove|I]] am in the process of uploading each individual verse for the entire Bible. I am using Visual Basic to extract individual verses from a text file and then create the required XML files for the templates and pages. This will make it a reasonably automated process, but is still a bit fiddly, because I have to keep an eye out for errors in the XML files I am creating. So it may take me a few months to do this completely.
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| − | ==Which version?==
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| − | We are using the public domain World English Bible as the text. Eventually, the same system could be employed to upload other versions such as the King James, American Standard, and Greek and Hebrew versions.
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| − | ==Writing commentaries, sermons and personal opinions==
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| − | The plan is not only to have the text of the Bible, but also to have commentaries on each book, chapter and verse; and also to allow people to add their own personal articles or sermons about the passage. The "commentary" part is the main task. Each page will be set out as follows:
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| − | * Synopsis
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| − | ** A one or two sentence summary of the main point of the verse, chapter or book
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| − | * Translations
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| − | ** Links to different translations - initially the World English Version; later other versions such as KJV
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| − | * Comments, Personal Articles and Studies
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| − | ** A link to a discussion page for pepole to leave 1 or 2 sentence remarks or opinions about the passage
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| − | ** Links for any personal opinion articles or sermons on the passage
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| − | * Commentary
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| − | ** The bulk of the article goes here - this is to be an encyclopedia style article that is about the passage in question - it should not be full of personal opinions but instead should explain the various accepted interpretations on the passages
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| − | * Quotes
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| − | ** Any quotes related to the passage can go here
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| − | * Links
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| − | ** Any relevant external links can go here
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| − | * Return To ...
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| − | ** Returns you up one level; so John 3:16 will Return To John 3, which will have Return To The Gospel of John
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| − | ==What does it look like in practice==
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| − | The Gospel of John has been uploaded, and some of its pages have commentaries.
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| − | Take a look at
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| − | * [[Gospel of John]]
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| − | * [[John 11]]
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| − | * [[John 11:25]]
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| − | * [[John 11:35]]
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| − | * [[John 3:16]]
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| − | * [[Matthew 16]]
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| − | ==How can you help?==
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| − | So far, the following have been uploaded:
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| − | * [[Gospel of Matthew]] | [[Gospel of Mark]] | [[Gospel of Luke]] | [[Gospel of John]]
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| − | * [[Acts of the Apostles]]
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| − | * [[Epistle to the Romans]] | [[First Epistle to the Corinthians]] | [[Second Epistle to the Corinthians]]
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| − | Start helping out in one of the above books by doing any of the following:
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| − | # Write/edit the synopsis for a passage
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| − | # Write/edit the "Commentary" for a passage
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| − | # Add appropriate external links to the "Links" section for a passage
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| − | # Upload a sermon you have given for a passage and add it to the "Comments, Personal Articles and Studies"
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| − | # Edit a verse template putting in links for important words like <nowiki>[[Jesus]], [[God]], [[Apostle Peter|Peter]], [[forgiveness|forgive]], [[sin]], [[eternal life]]</nowiki>
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| − | Thanks, --[[User:Graham grove|Graham grove]] 05:57, 29 August 2007 (EST)
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