I was a bit confused at first, but the screenshots you posted at your 
user subpage helped. It would appear this is a script that serves as a 
visual index with previews, allowing the user to view the lead image and 
first paragraph of all articles in alphabetical order.

Stefan, my only question right now is this-- it is very nifty, but does 
it have any practical use? I can't think of any.

Gott segnet,
Bob

On 3/20/2011 1:04 PM, Stefan Kühn wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I miss in Wikipedia a page like a book-page in an old-style lexicon. In
> the past I search something in an printed lexicon and found on the same
> page an interesting image and read a total other text, about this
> interesting image.
>
> Now we can do this also in Wikipedia. I wrote a Perl-script which scan
> the dumps of a language and sort the title. An other script get via API
> the first paragraph and the first image of all articles of one page.
> This result will be represented in a multicolumn page in many browsers
> (FF, Safari, Chromium). At the moment 36 languages are supported.
>
> Project page with screens
> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Stefan_K%C3%BChn/The_Book
>
> Homepage of "The Book"
> http://toolserver.org/~sk/cgi-bin/book/book.cgi
>
> Maybe a better programmer can implement something like this in the
> Mediawiki-Software.
>
> Stefan
>
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