Wikipedia:Concept cloud
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A concept cloud is a
The concept cloud can help editors to overcome editorial struggles, and conceptualize, in a material way, the way an article is formed. From this mode of explicit and discrete concept listing, the various particular elements can be scrutinized and moved around intelligently without singling out the editing or writing skills of particular editors.
Form
A typical cloud is both a proactive object and a reverse-constructed form of an existing statement (reverse cloud). For example, the lead paragraph of the mathematics article currently states:
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The reverse cloud is simply a disassembly of the above:
the study of: quantity, structure, space, relation, change, various topics of: pattern, form, entity. patterns, other quantitative dimensions. numbers, spaces, natural science, computers, imaginary abstractions, other entities. new conjectures, establish truth, rigorous deduction, axioms, definitions. |
This reverse cloud can then be shown as an ordered list, with either room for comments (*), or a means to indicate particular terms (A 1, etc.):
A. Mathematics is..
B. Mathematicians seek out
C. whether dealing with
D. Mathematicians formulate
E. from appropriately chosen
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