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TROUBLES WARNINGS AND CONFUSION

We had a lot of difficulty when we first started digging into wikipedia. This page is to warn you away from the errors we made. The wikipedia staff was nice enough to help us ultimately find our way.

 

  1. Warning #1.1 -- the page <<http://wikipedia.org/>> is not called "Main Page" on the site. The "Main Page" <<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>>does NOT have a search window -- so always be prepared to get back to <<http://wikipedia.org/>>if you get lost.
  2. Warning #1.2 -- If you do wind up at "Main Page" you will be tempted to click on (A) "Contents" and "Featured content" in the left column or (B) "All portals", "Contents", "Categories" and "Featured Content" in or near the right column. Don't click on any of those. They lead to confusing pages and chances are high that you will get lost. If we are missing something obvious, please contact us at our contact address at the top of this page and set us straight
  3. Warning #2.1 -- The results from the A-Z index are quite different from the results of (1) above. Here is the result from "Aborigine" at the A-Z index. <<http://wikilookup.info/info/guide/a/ab/aborigines.html>>. Compare that with the result from the result of typing in "aborigine" at the search window at <<http://wikipedia.org/>> They are completely different.
  4. If you go from "Main Page" to "Contents", you will wind up at <<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Contents>>,
    At that page, you will find about 40 links, each of them sound promising in your search for contents -- but they do not pay off. They go to some interesting content, but it is either (a) isolated information that you are unlikely to be looking for or (b) not organized in a logical way that is easy to follow. In other words, it seems to be a poor way of organizing information.
  5. If you go from "Main Page" to "Contents" to Overviews > Topics > Basic topics · Glossaries > Portals > Categories, you will traverse 6 pages -- each chock full of links which, seem random and not well organized. I, Martin Carbone, could not make sense of the system. If you can explain it to me -- please contact me at our contact address.
  6. Miscellaneous lists on wikipedia, about 1,000 lists on various topics. The list is not in any apparent order, so it is hard to find things, but it might be worthwhile browsing for a topic you can't find elsewhere. The page is titled "Pages that link to Template:CompactTOC" -- we do not know what that means. Perhaps we should copy that list, put it into alphabetical order and put it on the website of alphabeticalist.com. Viewers could then browse through that alpahbeticized list and go back to wikipedia if they find the name of a list they want to find. It appears that links from this page lead to "pages under construction" which have not yet been assigned a permanent home? We will ignore it for now.
  7. More miscellaneous lists on wikipedia This goes to about 600 lists of topics which are about the same type of thing as in #7 above.
  8. Here is another "Lists of Topics" <<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_topics#Reference>> It seems comprehensive, but it is split into categories and therefore difficult to browse. We do not want to discount it completely, but think the other pages we suggest can be used more efficiently,

We generated the following links independently of the links at <<http://www.howto-ville.com/w.html>> and have decided to abandon them. We are saving them in case we change our mind.

  1. Wikipedia -- This looks like a complete index of Wikipedia topics. It is a 2-symbol index. Be sure you understand that it is case sensitive -- read the information at the top of the page
  2. Wikipedia: a clickable A-Z list for wikipedia is at this link (from alphabeticalist.com).
  3. Wikipedia Categories (Clicking on a letter below will take you to a page. At the top of each page there will be two windows. Pull down the selector so the second window shows "category", you can then fill in the top window with a 2-letter combination and "go" to page of words that starts with that specific alphabetical combination -- for example type in "ru" if you are looking for "rugby" or "ruby"). You can also fill in that top window with any word and you will go to a page that starts with that word.
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  4. Wikipedia Topics (300,000?). This takes you to an alphabetical list in a different form from those above. We do not know if there are any worthwhile reasons to use or avoid this form. If you know, please tell us by contacting us at the contact address at the top of this page-------- 0| 1| 2| 3| 4| 5| 6| 7| 8| 9| A| B| C| D| E| F| G| H| I| J| K| L| M| N| O| P| Q| R| S| T| U| V| W| X| Y| Z
  5. Wikipedia Topics and Articles: This goes to another complete alphabetical list of topics ???