Wikipedia talk:Topical index

message: I just have tried to set up new topics at the bottom of the Geometry 
article referring to 
the 2, 3, 4-dimensional space, denoted by an R and a little 2, 3, 4 :
geometry in R3 
and so on, 
but the new page had a title that did not display the correct title, 
but rather included the  sup and /sup brackets written out in plain text etc.
A message said : You cannot edit this page. 
Looks like a bug to me. Karl— Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.37.72.100 (talk • contribs) 22:41, 9 February 2002
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Whoa! this page has got far far to much stuff on it. It takes too long to load & there is too much to take in. I plan on merciless culling -- eg only one link to Naming Conventions since that page is a hub to specific naming pages, etc. Voice objections or beat me to it. :-) -- Tarquin 15:39 Oct 30, 2002 (UTC)
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I love this page. I wish I had seen it when I first registered here. Is there any chance that it could be made available via a link appearing on every page? David 21:52 Oct 30, 2002 (UTC)
The same request has been made by a user of the German wikipedia for the German pendant of this page. I support this idea, too. Maybe over the special-menu? --Elian 22:39, 30 October 2002
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Hi, would a utility like watched pages hitlist be helpful? It would be interresting to see, what 
* the top 10 watched pages of all registered (and maybe active) Wikipedians are. 
* Or the "unwatched" pages, to see if there would be any page that needs more watching. 
Thanks for comments, Fantasy 16:19 26 Jun 2003 (UTC)
:For me equally interesting would be to see a list of unwatched pages on which noone is keeping an eye on.Kpjas 08:03 27 Jun 2003 (UTC)
::See Wikipedia:feature requests and submit a tracker. Martin 12:03, 4 Aug 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: More old talk

message: This may seem a bit esoteric, but, I'll try...
The search features are great, but, when trying to work out if Wikipedia can do something (I'm not talking about the encyclopedia content, but the functions of Wikipedia the system), the search may not find what you are looking for. Then you need to try a differnt research approach. You may want to look and see what it can do, a summary, overview, to see if it has something like what you are looking for. (I was looking for a Wish List) It is at this point at which, in books that have one, you turn to the contents page.
But where is the contents page for the Wikipedia System documentation ?
Actually, there is pretty much a contents page in the Wikipedia:About page. All I'm suggesting is that perhaps we rename that page as the About and Contents Page, or at least on the Main Page the pointer to the Wikipedia:About Page be changed to About and Contents
I sure hope people see the point, because it is very hard to explain. RB-Ex-MrPolo 13:59, 31 Jul 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: I do see the point. Wikipedia:Utilities and Wikipedia:Help should serve as contents, of a sort, but I do feel the documentation area continues to need work. Martin 14:09, 2 Aug 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Request for the word Contents to appear somewhere on the Main Page Community / About the Project section

message: I've just replaced the list of Research_resources with a template that lists them in a central place.  There were a lot of wrongly catagorized links in there: I'll list them below.
*Wikipedia:1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica - should be, and is, listed in Public Domain sources.
*Wikipedia:Book sources - this is arguable, but it is really a special page devoted to the ISBN feature, not a list of sources for articles.
*Wikipedia:Complete list of encyclopedia topics (obsolete) - The name says it all; this page should be deleted.
*Wikipedia:Google Test - a HOWTO, not a list of sources.
*Wikipedia:List of encyclopedia topics (includes links to subpages) - a what to write about page.
*Wikipedia:Map sources - broken at present; Wikipedia:Maps is better.
*Wikipedia:Porting Vectorsite articles - should be, and is, listed under Wikipedia:Public_domain_resources#Transport; should not be here as it is not a list.
*Wikipedia:Rouse History of Mathematics - same as last one.
*Wikipedia:What You Need To Know About Cancer booklets - same as last one.
*Wikipedia:WikiBiblion - a relic from before we had WikiSource.
Let me know if there's a problem with this. JesseW 10:52, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: It's fine to delete an entry for Wikipedia:Complete list of encyclopedia topics (obsolete) from a list, but please do not delete the page itself, under any circumstances - it, along with associated talk and subpages (and, more critically, their histories), contain important documentation of the early days of Wikipedia - documentation which will (someday) be very important to historians. Trust me (as someone who worked on something else important where we threw away the records "because they are obviously useless junk" - which is now driving historians of technology to despair) on this one! Noel (talk) 13:33, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: 03:23, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Templated Research_resources

message: We now have :Category:Wikipedia as a navigational tool to find Wikipedia namespace pages by topic.  The category tree is more up to date and will be easier to feed and trim in the future, so I'm simply going to direct people there.  I'll try to use this page and Wikipedia:Utilities as a guide to improve the category structure.  -- Beland 02:20, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The portal links to :Category:Wikipedia now. -- Beland 09:48, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Overhaul in progress 

message: If anyone cares, the Category:Wikipedia tree could be dumped here or somewhere else by a bot, to have the whole thing on one page.  But first everything needs to be merged into the category tree, so there's only One True List.  Personally, I don't feel the need, but if you do, leave a note. -- Beland 09:48, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Category tree dump