Samuel Wantman wrote:
It really bothers me (and others, especially librarians), that Wikipedia is not indexed. You cannot find a master index of People, places, books, films, etc... To find anything you have to know in advance, where it is subcategorized.
Perhaps you need to think again. Perhaps the librarians are wrong. What is a person is not always clear. To what extent is pharaoh Cheops a person, a fictional character or a deity? The same question can be asked of Winston Churchill and Harry Potter. Is London a town or several towns? Is computer science a branch of mathematics or of electrical engineering? Wikipedia doesn't take a clear stand on any of these issues, but remains open to ambiguity. This is not because we have never heard of the hierarchical Dewey Decimal, but because we reject it. It was a necessary tool for organizing printed information in the 20th century. But now you can search.
Nonetheless, the Persondata project does exist, exactly for indexing persons. But it still doesn't include Mr. Cheops.
I realize the lines I quoted from your posting is only an introduction to your new ideas for indexing. These ideas might be quite useful. You should try to implement them. But please don't give us that old "librarians are bothered", because we have been there long ago and we have moved on.