A typical year article is [[1973]]. But there is also [[1345]]
which looks quite different, having running text and
illustrations, rather than just bullet lists. This format is an
innovation from December 2007. The revision history is for some
reason found under [[1345 (summary)]].
Is any similar innovation going on in disambiguation pages and
list articles?
Do you know any exceptional examples that are more beautiful or
explain the topic better, than the standard format?
I know some list articles can be much improved by introducing a
table that is column sortable (class="wikitable sortable"). This
removes the need for separate "alphabetical list of ..." and "list
of ... by size". One example is the Russian list of "cities in
Sweden", which also uses a map to illustrate the list article,
[[ru:Города Швеции]],
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0_%D0%A8%D0…
The columns are Russian name, Swedish name, population, foundation
year, cathedral, county, and latitude. By clicking the box in the
column headings, you can sort the list by name in either language,
by population, by age, and north-to-south.
In one Swedish disambiguation page, I inserted two illustrations
to explain why the word "foxtail" is also the name of a plant,
[[sv:Rävrumpa]],
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A4vrumpa
(In English, equisetum arvense is known as [[Horsetail]], but
that is a redirect and not a disambiguation page.)
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