[Wikipedia-l] on a lighter note: lists

[Poor, Edmund W]

I didn't agree to this. It depends on what the reader is looking for.

Chrono order (earliest first) -- when you care about the complete list, from first to last
* List of US presidents - Washington, Adams, Jefferon, ...
* Lists of states that joined the union
* Nobel prizes

Reverse chrono (latest first) -- when you care about the last few more than the first
* Academy Award (Oscar) winners 
* Emmy Awards
* Sports champions -- World Series (baseball), World Cup (soccer), Stanley Cup (hockey)

Some awards like Pulitzer Prizes could go either way. Nobel Peace Prize, which is politically motivated and topical, could also go either way.

Ed Poor


-----Original Message-----
From: tarquin [mailto:tarquin at planetunreal.com]
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 12:10 PM
To: wikipedia-l at nupedia.com
Subject: [Wikipedia-l] on a lighter note: lists


A while back we agreed that most chronological lists should go forward, 
from past to present reading down. (prizes, incumbents, lists of works, 
and chronologies themselves)

since there are many list pages that go the other way, and reversing by 
hand is tedious, I've put up a perl script:

    * http://wiki.beyondunreal.com/cgi-bin/reverser.cgi

I'll link it to it from the manual of style when I get round to updating 
it to mention lists.



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