On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Liam Wyatt <[email protected]> wrote: >> Yeah, it is a great idea.... that's why we have article introductions, >> right? >> >> - causa sui >> > > Yep! Our style of having an introductory paragraph that is a summary of the > salient points of the whole article (rather than a "hook" to get people to > read the whole thing) is a great editorial choice in my opinion. It also > makes our content, with the API, extremely re-usable.
Yes...to a point. Our opening sentences very strictly define the topic, frequently with birth/death dates, names in other languages, and claim to notability. I'm thinking of a sentence that serves strictly to delineate this topic, and contrast with other articles. Compare: Kim Jong-il (also written as Kim Jong Il, Korean: 김정일; born 16 February 1941; official biographies state 16 February 1942[1]) is the Supreme Leader[2] of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (also known as North Korea). With: About Kim Jong-il, current leader of North Korea, his personal and public life. I don't know, I haven't really thought this out. > For example, the > National Library of Australia sucks in our introductory paragraph of > articles about Australian newspapers for use in their newspaper digitsation > project - for example, look in the top-right hand corner of their landing > page for "The Argus": http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/title/13 (they > also do a similar thing with our articles about individual authors in their > book catalogue search. Yeah, I love that site. :) http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/profile/user:public:stevage Do you have any professional connection with the site? I was nearly going to be doing some work with them, but it fell through. Steve _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
