|From: Matthew Woodcraft mattheww+wikipedia@chiark.greenend.org.uk |Content-Disposition: inline |Sender: wikien-l-admin@wikipedia.org |Reply-To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org |Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 10:13:09 +0000 | |On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:56:51PM -0800, Jonathan Walther wrote: |> I don't see lists as belonging on the Wikipedia at all. However, I do |> see them as an important affiliated project, in a way similar to the |> Wiktionary. | |Even when lists aren't of much interest in themselves, they can be |useful to help people find articles. | |It's not uncommon that there's a name you can't remember, but you'd |recognise if you saw it. A list page is much better than a search, |then. | |-M- |
Lists are less useful in a print encyclopedia, but invaluable in an online encyclopedia, particularly if they are not just names, but names annotated with some kind of one-liner identifying the name.
Tom P. O88