A notice for everyone who writes often on Wikipedia: ***Users do not read the page; they just scan it!*** See http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9710a.html Personally I agree completely with the article, which of course I haven't read but just scanned it and scrolled quickly from start to end picking interesting words to understand what it is all about. May you Have PEACE PROFOUND, --Optim __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus

As a matter of fact, after scannig those lines at useit.com, one gets the impression that it is the same as with books. Good readers (and people reading WP articles are -for my part- assumed to be good readers do not read word by word EVER. Even a book. It is absolutely hideous and the worst way to get information. Only in the interent people read faster because they do not look for verbose info (even less for style). One idea per paragraph is a basic style concept. highlighting, sub-headings. lists, etc.. well that is pretty obvious if the reader looks for SPECIFIC DETAILS. Not necessarily so in an encyclopedia (which needs to give also circumstancial details). etc... In any case, good sectioning, structuring and heading are the keys for any text to be started to be read. Pedro. -- Pedro Fortuny Ayuso: http://pfortuny.sdf-eu.org Colegio Mayor Peñafiel, Universidad de Valladolid C/ Estudios 6, 47005 Valladolid, Spain --> www.cmpenafiel.org pfortuny(a)sdf-eu.org Tfn. Nr. 34 983 298277

On Jan 12, 2004, at 2:40 PM, Vicki Rosenzweig wrote: Yes, people will read the details, but if we can make articles more accessible to people looking for only a sense of the topic, as well as people scanning a specific detail, all the better. Peter --- Funding for this program comes from Borders without Doctors: The Bookstore Chain That Sounds Like a Charity. --Harry Shearer, Le Show