On 6/15/07, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
Sometimes I wonder if it could ever catch on to have a wiki encyclopedia where every single article fits in a single normal sized screenful of information. The article would be a true summary, not a list of links to subarticles. Instead of a table of contents there could be a list of subpages - on the side and not obnoxiously placed within the article using {{Main}} tags.
I did this with a text-based UNIX user help information program called "info" in the late 1980s - working screen real estate was 23x80, no exceptions, and I used a tiny little hypertexting mechanism which along with the header info on each article display cut useable space down to 21x80.
Live in 1680 characters gets challenging, but it was amazing how much we could do with it...