User:Dijxtra/Wikipedia:WikiProject Micropedia

Welcome to the Micropedia WikiProject. We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Micropedia.

Goal

 * To create a 250 characters tagline for every article on Wikipedia.

Every article would have /tagline subpage where a text consisting of no more than 250 characters would be put. The text would be all in one line, and would have no formatting (no HTML, no wiki syntax). Only 26 letters of English alphabet would be used.

Possible uses
On mobile phones, on IRC, on UNIX command line. It would be fairly easy to setup an IRC bot which would recognize requests (such as @wikipedia "Hilary Putnam"), connect to Wikipedia, retrieve the tagline and post it on the channel. A simple program could be invoked from UNIX command line and retrieve the tags so people who just want to know why is Mick O'Connell notable don't need to read the whole article, in fact, don't have to run the browser at all. The size of 250 characters makes it possible to retrieve this data in 2 SMSes (and still have free space for things such as email of sender if email->SMS gateway is used).

Format
The text of the tagline:
 * must be all in first row
 * must not exceed 250 characters
 * must use only 26 letters of English alphabet

Persons
Full name (short name in cases of a long full name), date of birth (and death) in "j.n.Y" (PHP date syntax) format, nationality, occupation, why the person is notable

Countries
Full name (short name in cases of a long full name), location ("south-east Europe"), population, area, GDP ...

Categories

 * Category:Articles having tagline

Goal

 * To create a summary of each Wikipedia article similar to "Today's featured article"

Categories

 * Category:Articles having summary