[WikiEN-l] Re: Print edition

[Magnus Manske]

Daniel Mayer wrote:

>Delirium wrote:
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>>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.  
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>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). 
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How about marking the end of the introduction with an (invisible) 
variable, like "{{ENDINTRO}}" or "{{BEGINDETAILS}}"? The "collection 
script" could then cut the article off there automagically.

Magnus