I love this idea, and Stefan's proof of concept. I agree that we need
this sort of way of viewing pages. If there were an automatic way to
do this, it would be a most welcome variation on the current Category
view, for instance.
It would also be helpful for people looking for a brief bit of
information about every topic for print.
Sam.
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Stefan Kühn <kuehn-s(a)gmx.net> 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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