Delirium wrote:
I think we need to split out versions somewhere else, because we're looking for concise articles, not full encyclopedia articles. Simply marking [[World War II]] as "ready for print" doesn't do anything towards getting us a good one-to-two-paragraph summary of World War II.
Ideal Wikipedia news style would be to have the first section of an article be a concise article in its own right. Then the process of creating a concise version would be as simple as extracting the first section of each article (excluding tables and images).
-- mav
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Daniel Mayer (maveric149@yahoo.com) [040228 15:09]:
Delirium wrote:
I think we need to split out versions somewhere else, because we're looking for concise articles, not full encyclopedia articles. Simply marking [[World War II]] as "ready for print" doesn't do anything towards getting us a good one-to-two-paragraph summary of World War II.
Ideal Wikipedia news style would be to have the first section of an article be a concise article in its own right. Then the process of creating a concise version would be as simple as extracting the first section of each article (excluding tables and images).
This is what I try to do with the first para an/or intro of every article I work on.
(I have my personal style guide on [[User:David Gerard]]. I would most welcome thoughts on my talk page.)
- d.
Daniel Mayer wrote:
Delirium wrote:
I think we need to split out versions somewhere else, because we're looking for concise articles, not full encyclopedia articles. Simply marking [[World War II]] as "ready for print" doesn't do anything towards getting us a good one-to-two-paragraph summary of World War II.
Ideal Wikipedia news style would be to have the first section of an article be a concise article in its own right. Then the process of creating a concise version would be as simple as extracting the first section of each article (excluding tables and images).
How about marking the end of the introduction with an (invisible) variable, like "{{ENDINTRO}}" or "{{BEGINDETAILS}}"? The "collection script" could then cut the article off there automagically.
Magnus