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Reading an article

/wiki/Pointillism

A document with apparatus, not an app with content

The page a reader actually came for. The lead answers first; contents, inline citations and the other-language versions sit around it without competing for attention.

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    Lead section first, apparatus around it

    Opened /wiki/Pointillism.

    The lead answers the question before any navigation appears. Contents, references and language links are all present but subordinate — the page is a document with apparatus, not an app with content in it.

    /wiki/Pointillism
    /wiki/Pointillism
    The lead section of the Pointillism article
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    Sections carry their own citations

    Scrolled to the first substantive section.

    Every claim is footnoted at the point it's made rather than in a bibliography at the end. On a long article that's the difference between a reader being able to check one sentence and having to trust the whole page.

    /wiki/Pointillism
    /wiki/Pointillism
    A body section of the article with inline citations
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    The same article, in every language that has one

    Opened the language selector.

    Each language is a separate article with its own editors and its own revision history, not a translation of the English one. They're linked as siblings rather than derived from a source — which is why the list is a navigation surface and not a locale toggle.

    /wiki/Pointillism
    • Captured as a step inside this feature, not as a separate `article-fr` feature. A locale is an axis through a feature; cataloguing it separately would inflate the feature count without documenting anything new.
    /wiki/Pointillism
    The language selector listing other-language versions

Worth knowing

  • Each language version is an independent article with its own history — the language list is navigation between siblings, not a translation switch.