http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/200653,wikipedia-to-be-converted-to-...
Basically, they're taking the first paragraph or lead section of 50,000 or so articles to make into a 1000-page concise desk encyclopedia.
This is why the lead summary of articles is *vastly* important. It must be a complete standalone short article in itself.
By pushing this stylistic rule on en:wp, we can make it a better encyclopedia and more reusable for those without internet connections.
- d.
On 22/04/2008, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Basically, they're taking the first paragraph or lead section of 50,000 or so articles to make into a 1000-page concise desk encyclopedia.
If we were to do this, I'd only consider featured articles, and possibly good articles. I'm sure there's not 50000 of them.
On 22/04/2008, Majorly axel9891@googlemail.com wrote:
On 22/04/2008, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Basically, they're taking the first paragraph or lead section of 50,000 or so articles to make into a 1000-page concise desk encyclopedia.
If we were to do this, I'd only consider featured articles, and possibly good articles. I'm sure there's not 50000 of them.
I think all of our articles could benefit from that - and provide a better service to the reader - if we can somehow make it into a habit. de:wp can manage it, we can.
- d.