Talk:Index

Mathematics
What about the mathematical meaning of "index"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.47.188.16 (talk) 19:00, 8 March 2003 (UTC)

I know it may be redundant
If you see purposeless linking to "main articles" despite the whole article being there, don't worry. I plan on turning this page into a disambiguation page. MessedRocker 01:48, Mar 14, 2005 (UTC)

Turned into a disambiguation page
Just like what someone asked ;) MessedRocker 02:05, Mar 14, 2005 (UTC)

VOTE!! - HDI in Infobox#Countries|country infobox/template?
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a standard UN measure/rank of how developed a country is or is not. It is a composite index based on GDP per capita (PPP), literacy, life expectancy, and school enrollment. However, as it is a composite index/rank, some may challenge its usefulness or applicability as information.

Thus, the following question is put to a vote:

Should any, some, or all of the following be included in the Wikipedia Infobox#Countries|country infobox/template:
 * (1) Human Development Index (HDI) for applicable countries, with year;
 * (2) Rank of country’s HDI;
 * (3) Category of country’s HDI (high, medium, or low)?

YES / NO / UNDECIDED/ABSTAIN - vote here

Thanks!

E Pluribus Anthony 01:52, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Mechanics
A use of "index" omitted here is that in mechanics where a movable part is held in any of a set of fixed positions by an indexing device, often a spring-loaded ball. SilasW 16:22, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Economic Punctuation
I am wondering if anyone could clear this for the use of the word index, us as used in US Dollar Index and Trade Weighted US dollar Index, to whether they are capitalized or not. Talk page on Wikipedia Enlil Ninlil 04:33, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Windows XP: Indexing, Indexing Service
What Indexing options are available for the different XP Service Packs and how does the user implement them, etc? Perhaps Vista Indexing also needs to be addressed, if it exists... Thanks, Nei1 (talk) 15:54, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Art
What about the art index, such as in painting? 198.151.130.144 (talk) 18:44, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

'...a largely obsolete punctuation mark'
By whose standards is the index obsolete? Being old-fashioned does not make it obsolete. A better wording may be 'a punctuation mark common in the 19th century' or 'a symbol resembling a pointing hand' which is neutral and non-Eurocentric. Signature (talk) 16:04, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I have replaced "largely obsolete" by "(rare today)", using a formulation in the linked article. The parentheses are there because the qualification is of minor importance in a dab page. D.Lazard (talk) 17:02, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

Mathematics needs to conform
Someone has been very creative with their disambiguation links, however, they need to look at Disambiguation and MOSDAB to look at the purpose and precision needed to utilise these pages. They are used to disambiguate, so find, not explain the concepts or give examples. Would someone be so inclined to update such items to be DISAMBIG ready. Thanks. — billinghurst  sDrewth  08:05, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

Indexing (information sciences)
I'm sorry I don't write in English very well. Maybe someone could write about this: http://ctp.di.fct.unl.pt/~jmag/wamse/papers/1960.On Relevance, Probabilistic Indexing and Information Retrieval.pdf

Information retrieval is quite related. Although it is Informatics' thing, it touches Library and Information Sciences' issues as it is indexing a part of the science and professional task related to Library and Information Sciences. Someone could explain it better than me. --84.126.89.215 (talk) 21:41, 16 May 2015 (UTC)