[Wikipedia-l] series of articles and navigation table

[repost as 1st didnt reach newsserver it seem]

Hello,

I was reading the History of Germany articles and found the navigation table on the right quite useful: http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Germany

I think this will improve wikipedia just as much as the automatic table of content did.

A way to implement this feature would be to point a parent article to all it's childs and vice versa. That might be done using [[parent:articlename]] and / or [[child:articlename]].

Let's look at an example:

History of Germany -> Franks -> Holy Roman Empire -> German Confederation -> German Empire -> Weimar Republic -> Nazi Germany -> Germany since 1945

Franks article is interesting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franks) as it is part of two series (History of France AND of Germany).

So the History of Germany will have: [[child:Franks]]

And Franks will have: [[parent:History of France]] [[parent:History of Germany]]

Maybe we just need the parent tag ? Setting up a parent tag in an article will automaticly update the parent article without using any child.

cheers,