wiki pedista wrote:
I was thinking about a printed wikipedia. Enciclopedias usually are printed in alphabetical order. As there is no absolute order in wikipedia, we have named the articles with the best possible article, but not the one that would be correctly files if ordered. For example, the biographies are listed with the proper name first, while in a printed work we would look for it by last name... detailed articles about history, economy, etc. of countries would be all printed together, and far away from the country itself, and so on.
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?
AstroNomer
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Hi AstroNomer,
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 :-)
Kind regards, Pieter