Pieter Suurmond wrote:
wiki pedista wrote:
Would it be possible to add a tag for each article that says where should it be placed in an alphabetically ordered list? For example, in Bill Clinton the tag would be something like <alpha>Clinton, Bill</alpha> or something like that.
What do you think?
That is possible but not necessary (in my opnion). Better rename all pages, and let a script repair all backward links, than introducing an extra tag to the wiki-language. If agreement can be reached on how an article SHOULD be named, rename it. In other words: articles already have a "name" that can be lexically ordered, please don't introduce anything new which is not strictly necessary. Sorry :-)
Um, no, we should definitely NOT move [[Bill Clinton]] to [[Clinton, Bill]]
We are dealing with two very different things. The "wiki name" must be what people find easy to link to, and what looks good to Google. thus: "Bill Clinton".
"Clinton, Bill" is a "paper name". We will at one point want to produce paper output, so I think it's a good idea to start coding these in now.
Another idea I had along these lines was to create some synonyms for #REDIRECT:
#ALTERNATIVE <-- future paper edition will want this entry as a "see foo".