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How about quit trying here to find ''one or two'' additional specific lists per topic and instead add one additional generic entry per topic (maybe even as an icon) which leads to a "Most commonly looked up in XXXXX" page. This might be generated automatically from search results (using the Workgroup association as criterium where to list it), but I'm not sure if we really want that (who knows what comes out of that). Alternatively we could create that article based on our opinion what non-experts in the topic would most probably want to (or should) look at. So for Physics (where I'm non-expert) I could imagine links to [[Speed of Light]], [[Fusion]], [[Einstein]], [[Entropy]], ... on such a page. Would make the proposal process here less of a problem.
How about quit trying here to find ''one or two'' additional specific lists per topic and instead add one additional generic entry per topic (maybe even as an icon) which leads to a "Most commonly looked up in XXXXX" page. This might be generated automatically from search results (using the Workgroup association as criterium where to list it), but I'm not sure if we really want that (who knows what comes out of that). Alternatively we could create that article based on our opinion what non-experts in the topic would most probably want to (or should) look at. So for Physics (where I'm non-expert) I could imagine links to [[Speed of Light]], [[Fusion]], [[Einstein]], [[Entropy]], ... on such a page. Would make the proposal process here less of a problem. --[[User:Markus Baumeister|Markus Baumeister]] 13:58, 14 March 2007 (CDT)

Revision as of 12:58, 14 March 2007

Archive 1

Should we add some extra entry point articles to the main page? Please add your ideas below. --Larry Sanger 15:47, 13 March 2007 (CDT)

Probably we should stick to lists, overviews, and summary-type topics. Otherwise we end up making decisions about what individual topics within a field are most important--when the decision is almost always going to be completely arbitrary. That rules out the following suggestions (all of which are, obviously, extremely important topics for articles):

Topics that are (though important) not broad enough to include: Evolution - Tectonics - Magnetic North - e and i and pi - Isaac Newton Albert Einstein - Adam Smith and Karl Marx - Montessori Teaching - Psychoanalysis - Football (soccer) and American Football :) - Natural Law

--Larry Sanger 20:43, 13 March 2007 (CDT)


Natural Science
Astronomy - the planets or list of planets
Biology -
Chemistry - the elements
Computers - most common programming languages
Earth Sciences
Engineering
Health Sciences - human body - how drugs work - human physiology
Mathematics
Physics - Light - Sound
Social Sciences
Anthropology
Archaeology
Economics -
Education -
Geography - countries of the world (or?) World Gazetteer
Law
Linguistics - English language - major world languages - how languages develop - origin of speech
Politics - political ideologies or list of political ideologies
Psychology -
Sociology
Humanities
Classics - ancient Rome - ancient Greece
History - outline of world history
Literature - major works by language
Philosophy - outline of the history of philosophy - Western philosophers
Religion - world religions or list of religions or list of world religions
Arts
Architecture
Music - list of musical genres (or whatever) - history of Western classical music - (or?) musical instruments
Theater
Visual Arts
Applied Arts
Agriculture - list of crops
Business - major world corporations
Healing Arts - alternative or complementary medicine
Journalism - major world newspapers
Library and Information Science
Media
Military - modern weaponry
Recreation
Games
Hobbies
Sports

How about quit trying here to find one or two additional specific lists per topic and instead add one additional generic entry per topic (maybe even as an icon) which leads to a "Most commonly looked up in XXXXX" page. This might be generated automatically from search results (using the Workgroup association as criterium where to list it), but I'm not sure if we really want that (who knows what comes out of that). Alternatively we could create that article based on our opinion what non-experts in the topic would most probably want to (or should) look at. So for Physics (where I'm non-expert) I could imagine links to Speed of Light, Fusion, Einstein, Entropy, ... on such a page. Would make the proposal process here less of a problem. --Markus Baumeister 13:58, 14 March 2007 (CDT)