The Wikiproject about it is quite new. The way I see it, topic outlines are more of a topical glossary that lack the subcategorizing that a regular category would have. They could be of some use. bibliomaniac15 --- On Thu, 1/22/09, Matthew Brown <morven(a)gmail.com> wrote: From: Matthew Brown <morven(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] VfD against every article in Category.Outlines that is also in namespace 0? (aka: please stop writing another perverted encyclopedia inside wikipedia) To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Date: Thursday, January 22, 2009, 2:32 PM This apparently was originally [[List of basic topics]] and its children, and the rename to Outlines was done by [[User:The Transhumanist]]. [[List of basic topics]] dates to 2001 and was started by Larry Sanger, so this is not a new thing. -Matt On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Mathias Schindler <mathias.schindler(a)gmail.com> wrote: _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 02:38:49PM -0800, Scientia Potentia est wrote: The pages I familiar with here used to have names such as [[List of basic algebra topics]]. These can be viewed in several ways: * As a topic glossary highlighting the most important basic topics in the field * As an extended 'see also' list that is linked from the main article on the field. So [[Algebra]] links to [[List of basic algebra topics]] These lists are clearly of some value for readers who are interested in learning the basics of a topic. And the lists have some support among current editors; see [[Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Topic_outline_of_algebra]] which was closed this week. I don't know as much about the country articles, such as [[Topic outline of France]]. - Carl