Author: kop

Description:
Looking through the wiktionary by "index" or "words beginning with" produces a
columnar display. Such a display should have the words sorted like:

a i r
b j s
c k t
d l u
e m v
f n w
g p x
h q y

Instead, they are sorted like:

a b c
d e f
g h i
j k l
m n o
p q r
s t u
w x y

Why? Because it's hard for the eye to track back and find the beginning of the
next line to see where to pick up, wheras it's easy to go down the column. (Try
to find the missing letter in each example here. It's even harder to do in the
wiktionary because the lines are longer and the columns are not all the same
width.) It makes it _very_ difficult to scan a page of words to find one that
you arn't sure of the spelling of. If you're going to put things into columns,
then everything in the column should "go together". The current setup is very bad.

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://en.wiktionary.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Allpages&from=%2500