wiki pedista wrote:
I was thinking about a printed wikipedia.
Enciclopedias usually are printed in alphabetical
order. As there is no absolute order in wikipedia, we
have named the articles with the best possible
article, but not the one that would be correctly files
if ordered. For example, the biographies are listed
with the proper name first, while
in a printed work we would look for it by last name...
detailed articles about history, economy, etc. of
countries would be all printed together, and far away
from the country itself, and so on.
Would it be possible to add a tag for each article
that says where should it be placed in an
alphabetically ordered list? For example, in Bill
Clinton the tag would
be something like <alpha>Clinton, Bill</alpha> or
something like that.
What do you think?
AstroNomer
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Hi AstroNomer,
That is possible but not necessary (in my opnion).
Better rename all pages, and let a script repair
all backward links, than introducing an extra tag
to the wiki-language. If agreement can be reached
on how an article SHOULD be named, rename it.
In other words: articles already have a "name"
that can be lexically ordered, please don't
introduce anything new which is not strictly
necessary. Sorry :-)
Kind regards,
Pieter