[WikiEN-l] Columbia Encyclopedia titles

[Magnus Manske]

Timwi wrote:

>
> Hi.
>
> Yesterday I did this little comparison that Jimmy Wales asked me to 
> do, to see how large our encyclopedia would be if we covered the same 
> topics as Columbia.
>
> Among other things, the result revealed that about half of their 
> article titles do not have corresponding titles on Wikipedia.
>
> My question is whether we want to do something about this (create 
> redirects). I would like to dump the huge list of article titles we 
> don't have onto some page in the Wikipedia namespace, and have our 
> bulk of volunteers work through them and create redirects to the 
> relevant pages, or mark some as "we *really* don't have something 
> about this topic" if applicable.
>
> Would such an effort be warranted?
>
I once created a "list of encyclopedia topics", with ~100 000 entries 
(collected from various sources), as about 30 pages, and all topics as 
[[links]]. However, these pages were deactivated/removed, as displaying 
them was very slow indeed.

I'm all for such a list with [[links]], but you'll probably have to 
stretch them on a lot of pages (say, 100).

Magnus