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An index tends to be boring reading, even though it may lead you in the direction of interesting content. An encyclopedia tends to be more interesting reading, as there is a lot to explore without needing to leave the encyclopedia. But both indexes and encyclopedias have their separate uses. Most of us come to wiki articles by means of Google, which is an index; and even wiki encyclopedias have their own indexes (e.g. categories). [[User:Leucosticte|Leucosticte]] ([[User talk:Leucosticte|talk]]) 15:59, 12 May 2014 (UTC) | An index tends to be boring reading, even though it may lead you in the direction of interesting content. An encyclopedia tends to be more interesting reading, as there is a lot to explore without needing to leave the encyclopedia. But both indexes and encyclopedias have their separate uses. Most of us come to wiki articles by means of Google, which is an index; and even wiki encyclopedias have their own indexes (e.g. categories). [[User:Leucosticte|Leucosticte]] ([[User talk:Leucosticte|talk]]) 15:59, 12 May 2014 (UTC) | ||
Mostly it means that this is a [[:Category:Community|community]] of wiki people writing about wiki. [[:Category:Wiki | Mostly it means that this is a [[:Category:Community|community]] of wiki people writing about wiki. [[:Category:Wiki age|Wiki was around]] for 6-7 years before [[:Category:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]] and [[:Category:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]] - Wiki is not defined by Wikipedia, it is the other way around. ~~ [[MarkDilley]] | ||
:There are a lot of different ways of "writing about wiki", though. Wikipedia uses an encyclopedia format to do so, with articles like {{Wp|Citizendium}}, {{Wp|Jimbo Wales}}, {{Wp|history of wikis}}, etc. My question is basically, should WikiIndex pages be full-fledged encyclopedia articles that can cover the subjects in their entirety, or are they just supposed to be a template with some statistics and links; a few sentences very briefly describing the wiki, wiki person, or wiki idea; and a bunch of categories? Even if the scope of WikiIndex is limited to wikis, wiki people, and wiki ideas, that doesn't prevent it from being an encyclopedia ''that is limited to covering those topics''. | :There are a lot of different ways of "writing about wiki", though. Wikipedia uses an encyclopedia format to do so, with articles like {{Wp|Citizendium}}, {{Wp|Jimbo Wales}}, {{Wp|history of wikis}}, etc. My question is basically, should WikiIndex pages be full-fledged encyclopedia articles that can cover the subjects in their entirety, or are they just supposed to be a template with some statistics and links; a few sentences very briefly describing the wiki, wiki person, or wiki idea; and a bunch of categories? Even if the scope of WikiIndex is limited to wikis, wiki people, and wiki ideas, that doesn't prevent it from being an encyclopedia ''that is limited to covering those topics''. | ||