[WikiEN-l] Re: Print edition

Daniel Mayer maveric149 at yahoo.com
Sat Feb 28 04:08:30 UTC 2004


Delirium wrote:
>I think we need to split out versions somewhere else, 
>because we're looking for concise articles, not full 
>encyclopedia articles.  Simply marking [[World War II]] 
>as "ready for print" doesn't do anything towards 
>getting us a good one-to-two-paragraph summary of 
>World War II.  

Ideal Wikipedia news style would be to have the first section of an article be
a concise article in its own right. Then the process of creating a concise
version would be as simple as extracting the first section of each article
(excluding tables and images). 

-- mav

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