Lars Aronsson wrote:
On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Daniel Mayer wrote:
It is already difficult enough to explain the difference between certain types of wikipedia-specific pages, mere definition pages, vandalized pages and an actual encyclopedia articles without added confusion.
Wikipedia is the application of wiki to the goal of building an encyclopedia. The question is which terminology to use:
Wiki term Encyclopedia term
page entry (German: Stichwort) article article redirect reference (?) (German: Hinweis)
The difference is that a non-article "entry" in a printed encyclopedia is a single line (East Germany, see German Democratic Republic) while the word "page" sounds like it contains a lot of text.
"Page" is standard _web_ terminology for a single 2-dimensional continuous expanse of space that contains text and/or images, of any size.
"Entry" is I think not general enough, because we use the same tools to access and edit both encyclopedic material ("entries") and support materials: commentary about articles, the introduction to the encyclopedia and how to use it, and personal bios of the contributors and editors. I would hesitate to call these "[encyclopedia] entries", but I would not hesitate to call them "[web] pages".
Just my two cents.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)