Would it be possible to automatically create an
alphabetical list of wikipedia entries/articles?
This is available in many electronic encyclopedia and would make searching easier.
Cheers,
Jurriaan
There is already an alphabetical list of articles available in Wikipedia: it is "All
pages by title" on Special Pages or Special:Allpages. It has been temporarily
disabled but there is always a saved copy available.
It won't really help you with searching, only with browsing. And even then,
considering there are at least 170,000 articles, you will have to browse for a really long
time. :-)
The current saved copy is rather old (13 May 2003) - could someone please update it.
Brion mentioned on November 21 the miser mode override facility that would supposedly let
people update the saved copy easily by adding &magic=yes to the end of the URL.
e.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Allpages
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Allpages&magic=yes> &magic=yes
However this currently returns "You have requested a special page that is not
recognized by the wiki."
Is this the correct syntax? If so, does anyone know why it doesn't work? Not so much
for Allpages but for some of the other special pages it would be useful to have updates
every week or three.
Michael (Nanobug)