On 1/14/06, AndrĂ¡s Kardos k.andris@gmail.com wrote:
The whole Wikipedia is done "manually". This indexing is just a way to make this knowledge more accessible. Google is fine for page-like information, but not database like. You can't list people born in France in the time of World War 1, thogh this information is "hidden" in wikipedia.
Hmm.. good point. The "see also" or related topics ideas really do help the searchability of things, but it's nowhere near perfect, nor is it accessible. Plus it doesn't give the "map" or related items the way a good system would.
Some people like to write articles, others (like myself) would do this indexing stuff better. It's a personality thing...
I for one would love to move all the "see also" links to the top where they're more accessible. I hate doing fuzzy searches, finding a related article and needing to scroll through to the bottom to find related articles.
For me.. doing indexing and information management would actually be quite fun. Breadcrumbs, disambiguation pages and see also links have made my own site particularly easy to get around.. even if it's mostly for me. =)