[WikiEN-l] trying hard to do a list right

Matthew Woodcraft mattheww+wikipedia at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Sat Feb 15 10:13:09 UTC 2003


On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:56:51PM -0800, Jonathan Walther wrote:
> I don't see lists as belonging on the Wikipedia at all.  However, I do
> see them as an important affiliated project, in a way similar to the
> Wiktionary.

Even when lists aren't of much interest in themselves, they can be
useful to help people find articles.

It's not uncommon that there's a name you can't remember, but you'd
recognise if you saw it. A list page is much better than a search,
then.

-M-




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