On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Yeah, it is a
great idea.... that's why we have article introductions,
right?
- causa sui
Yep! Our style of having an introductory paragraph that is a summary of the
salient points of the whole article (rather than a "hook" to get people to
read the whole thing) is a great editorial choice in my opinion. It also
makes our content, with the API, extremely re-usable.
Yes...to a point. Our opening sentences very strictly define the
topic, frequently with birth/death dates, names in other languages,
and claim to notability. I'm thinking of a sentence that serves
strictly to delineate this topic, and contrast with other articles.
Compare:
Kim Jong-il (also written as Kim Jong Il, Korean: 김정일; born 16
February 1941; official biographies state 16 February 1942[1]) is the
Supreme Leader[2] of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (also
known as North Korea).
With:
About Kim Jong-il, current leader of North Korea, his personal and public life.
I don't know, I haven't really thought this out.
For example, the
National Library of Australia sucks in our introductory paragraph of
articles about Australian newspapers for use in their newspaper digitsation
project - for example, look in the top-right hand corner of their landing
page for "The Argus":
http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/title/13 (they
also do a similar thing with our articles about individual authors in their
book catalogue search.
Yeah, I love that site. :)
http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/profile/user:public:stevage
Do you have any professional connection with the site? I was nearly
going to be doing some work with them, but it fell through.
Steve