Talk:Atlas Shrugged

I am developing the AtlasShrugged section of Wikipedia as a test to push the envelope of what is possible with a wiki. I hope to show that a wiki-based encyclopedia is not merely the same old encyclopedia with a different development and editing system, but a tool that allows types of content not easily integrated into conventional encyclopedias.

I chose AtlasShrugged for this project for a few reasons. I am familiar with it so can do a passable job in summarizing it. It is very large and complex, making it a good test of what is possible. Often people who are into AtlasShrugged are _really_ into it, so there are likely people who will contribute and who will be interested in the section. There is a movie coming out, so interest in AtlasShrugged might be expected to surge soon - it would be good for the project if we were able to sate that interest with a really cool AtlasShrugged section.

Then we ought to have a similar LordOfTheRings section, too! -- Larry Sanger

See also : AtlasShrugged

Should these pages be reorganized somehow now that we don't use subpages? It doesn't seem like a very efficient way of organizing the info... Tuf-Kat

Yes. They should. Most of them are emphatically short anyway. Koyaanis Qatsi

A consolidation of these numerous articles is in progress, beginning with the Character stubs. See Talk:Characters in Atlas Shrugged. I'm not rewriting anything, just changing the structure of the information that's there. I admire the tenacity of the author, and the quality of the work that's been done here, but the fragmentation of the information actually makes it very hard to do any sort of analysis on the book. Hopefully a more compact style will provide a better look. Comments welcome. Catherine 03:05 Mar 13, 2003 (UTC)

I've begun compiling all the chapter bits into larger sections at Synopsis of Atlas Shrugged/Temp -- just the bare beginnings for now, and haven't altered any links yet. I'd like to discuss what to do with this, since the author never finished his work... see Atlas Shrugged/Structure to see how much would be left to synopse...! Catherine 19:32 Mar 15, 2003 (UTC)

Now at Synopsis of Atlas Shrugged, Chapters 1-5 and Synopsis of Atlas Shrugged, Chapters 6-10. Catherine 04:16 Mar 19, 2003 (UTC)