[WikiEN-l] Re: Print edition

[David Gerard]

Daniel Mayer (maveric149 at yahoo.com) [040228 15:09]:
> 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). 


This is what I try to do with the first para an/or intro of every article I
work on.

(I have my personal style guide on [[User:David Gerard]]. I would most
welcome thoughts on my talk page.)


- d.