Would it be possible to automatically create an alphabetical list of wikipedia entries/articles? This is available in many electronic encyclopedia and would make searching easier.
Cheers,
Jurriaan
There is already an alphabetical list of articles available in Wikipedia: it is "All pages by title" on Special Pages or Special:Allpages. It has been temporarily disabled but there is always a saved copy available.
It won't really help you with searching, only with browsing. And even then, considering there are at least 170,000 articles, you will have to browse for a really long time. :-)
The current saved copy is rather old (13 May 2003) - could someone please update it.
Brion mentioned on November 21 the miser mode override facility that would supposedly let people update the saved copy easily by adding &magic=yes to the end of the URL. e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Allpages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Allpages&magic=yes &magic=yes However this currently returns "You have requested a special page that is not recognized by the wiki." Is this the correct syntax? If so, does anyone know why it doesn't work? Not so much for Allpages but for some of the other special pages it would be useful to have updates every week or three.
Michael (Nanobug)
On Dec 4, 2003, at 09:53, Richards,Michael wrote:
There is already an alphabetical list of articles available in Wikipedia: it is "All pages by title" on Special Pages or Special:Allpages. It has been temporarily disabled but there is always a saved copy available.
Two things: Special:Allpages shows only chunks of 480 titles at a time, which are always current, or a list of available chunks (which may not be).
Currently the alphabetical order is _not_ correct for any non-English letters that may pop up. The sort ends up being by Unicode code point, which is wrong for pretty much any language.
Brion mentioned on November 21 the miser mode override facility that would supposedly let people update the saved copy easily by adding &magic=yes to the end of the URL. e.g.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Allpages&magic=yes
No. No, that's not the correct link.
Read that previous message again.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Richards,Michael wrote:
There is already an alphabetical list of articles available in Wikipedia: it is "All pages by title" on Special Pages or Special:Allpages. It has been temporarily disabled but there is always a saved copy available.
It won't really help you with searching, only with browsing. And even then, considering there are at least 170,000 articles, you will have to browse for a really long time. :-)
It's pretty useful for maintenance - different spellings of the same subject are adjacent, articles with a common prefix are together, out-of-place articles jump out at you, etc. It's also handy as an overview of coverage; there are a lot of good articles that are effectively invisible because they're only linked to from one or two obscure places.
It would be cool to have an additional list that includes redirs colored differently.
Stan
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