On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:48 AM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2009/5/5 geni <geniice(a)gmail.com>om>:
2009/5/5 David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>om>:
> know in 140 characters or less. You should
read the Twitterpedia
> version of the Peloponnesian War. Soon, that's all we'll be able to
> comprehend, 140 characters or less.
Effectively thats what the opening sentences of
wikipedia articles
should already be (with the opening paras being the summery
wikipedia).
"The Peloponnesian War, which lasted from 431-404BC, was an Ancient
Greek military war, fought by Athens and its empire against the
Peloponnesian League, led by Sparta."
Flabby wording with lots of redundancy.
That's 167 characters. Think we could get a 140
character requirement
added to [[Wikipedia:Lead section]]?
"The Peloponnesian War (431-404BC): Athens and its empire fought the
Peloponnesian League, led by Sparta."
The phrasing "Ancient Greek military war" is horrible in so many ways.
Better still, have poetic summaries of Wikipedia articles:
"In days of yore,
in Ancient Greece
on the wine-dark sea
and over the olive-clad hills
Athenian hoplites did battle
with Spartan warriors
over the islands of the Peloponnese"
After Wikipedia Art, we have Wikipedia Poetry?
Using Wikipedia articles as the inspiration for poems?
Carcharoth