I was a bit confused at first, but the screenshots you posted at your user subpage helped. It would appear this is a script that serves as a visual index with previews, allowing the user to view the lead image and first paragraph of all articles in alphabetical order.
Stefan, my only question right now is this-- it is very nifty, but does it have any practical use? I can't think of any.
Gott segnet, Bob
On 3/20/2011 1:04 PM, Stefan Kühn wrote:
Hi everybody,
I miss in Wikipedia a page like a book-page in an old-style lexicon. In the past I search something in an printed lexicon and found on the same page an interesting image and read a total other text, about this interesting image.
Now we can do this also in Wikipedia. I wrote a Perl-script which scan the dumps of a language and sort the title. An other script get via API the first paragraph and the first image of all articles of one page. This result will be represented in a multicolumn page in many browsers (FF, Safari, Chromium). At the moment 36 languages are supported.
Project page with screens http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Stefan_K%C3%BChn/The_Book
Homepage of "The Book" http://toolserver.org/~sk/cgi-bin/book/book.cgi
Maybe a better programmer can implement something like this in the Mediawiki-Software.
Stefan
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