[WikiEN-l] Extended Articles/Subpages

[phoebe ayers]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Philip Sandifer <snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  On Mar 18, 2008, at 1:21 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:
>  >
>  > I just discovered the articles in this category :
>  > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Bibliographies_by_subject
>  >
>  > These sorts of bibliographies would make *ideal* appendices off their
>  > main article. As it is, they're a little unwieldy as articles. But
>  > imagine, if every good or even half-way decent article had an
>  > associated "bibliography" tab, along with "appendices" and the main
>  > article... that would be pretty cool.
>
>  That's very similar to the Citizendium method - my hesitance about it
>  is that extensible interfaces can be a problem for us - it's much of
>  what went wrong with categories.

Aha! I hadn't looked at citizendium since they implemented this. Well,
it seems like a good idea, if potentially a place for spam to
accumulate (not to mention doing a good, comprehensive, unbiased
bibliography is *hard* -- though that's no reason not to try).

-- phoebe