Features suggestions

Hi everyone.

I'm rather new on the mailing lists, but have been playing with Wikipedia 
(mostly french one) for some months now.

I have some ideas of features, and would like to discuss them here.

1) Something to simplify creation of navigation bars
We sometimes have lists (at least on the fr part !), like 'Countries of the 
world' which has subpages like 'Countries of the world starting by A', '...B', 
and so on.
It would be great to have some special tags to generate the list automatically.
For instance:

    <wikilist('Countries of the world starting by $1', 
'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ', 'A', ' | ')>

would yield a list like:

    '''A''' | [[Countries of the world starting by B|B]] | ... | [[Countries of 
the world starting by Z|Z]]

That would come handy, simplify the writing of lists, and make it easy to 
change its style (one line instead of >26 for each article ! )

2) Have external links, and/or inter-Wiki links, open in a new window
Maybe an option in preferences ?

3) Some cosmetics things, but could be fun for the look.
Have different pics style (like theme, but for defining how many pics there 
are), like:
* no pics at all
* regular pics
* old-encyclopedy style, first letter of a paragraph is a nice hand-drawn big 
letter, horizontal rules are pics, and so on.
That would (imo !) give a nice look to the articles...

Ryo