Maybe we should make an alphabetical index to replace the seach engine. It would take much less computing power. The index would be searchable to find the right section (but not the right article) and look sort of like the list of all articles page, but all redirect pages and stubs would show up, but not the talk pages. Would that work?
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Maybe we should make an alphabetical index to replace the seach engine. It would take much less computing power. The index would be searchable to
find
the right section (but not the right article) and look sort of like the
list
of all articles page, but all redirect pages and stubs would show up, but not the talk pages. Would that work?
No. The way databasing works.. makes basic functions like alphabetizing and sorting so easy as to make it obsolete... the information can be sorted in any number of ways, provided its there... The index can always be reindexed for efficiency, but this is largely the domain of the database software...
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question599.htm
note: Viewing the HSW site requires having a good pop-up stopper ;)
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Daniel Ehrenberg wrote:
Maybe we should make an alphabetical index to replace the seach engine. It would take much less computing power. The index would be searchable to find the right section (but not the right article) and look sort of like the list of all articles page, but all redirect pages and stubs would show up, but not the talk pages. Would that work?
http://www.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2003-February/001299.html
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Brion Vibber wrote:
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Daniel Ehrenberg wrote:
Maybe we should make an alphabetical index to replace the seach engine. It would take much less computing power. The index would be searchable to find the right section (but not the right article) and look sort of like the list of all articles page, but all redirect pages and stubs would show up, but not the talk pages. Would that work?
http://www.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2003-February/001299.html
I remember that discussion. Of course it depended on knowing what the n'th article was. In Wiktionary at [[By Alphabetical Order]], I've thought of this. The question that comes from this, given that the entire body is an ordered list, is there a formula that will produce the title of the n'th article in the list of all pages?
Eclecticology