[WikiEN-l] Columbia Encyclopedia titles

[Ray Saintonge]

Stan Shebs wrote:

> The comma-separated names like "Agualho, Cape", have one valuable
> property; they sort correctly in a list of all articles. This will be
> a key step in producing a print version, and it's not always possible
> to algorithmically determine the right sort key. (Meta-info could do
> this too, but it's not been implemented.)

The rule: "Wikipedia is not paper" has been very helpful for us as an 
electronic encyclopedia.  For the paper product we may need to look at 
alternate ways to present material that are more like the almanacs that 
are produced each year than encyclopedias.  Our year pages alone could 
fill 500 printed pages, and cannot be alphabetized.

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