I love this idea, and Stefan's proof of concept. I agree that we need this sort of way of viewing pages. If there were an automatic way to do this, it would be a most welcome variation on the current Category view, for instance.
It would also be helpful for people looking for a brief bit of information about every topic for print. Sam. On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Stefan Kühn <[email protected]> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikipedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l > -- Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
