I agree with Brion's suggestions for:
* count total number of _pages_ (for "most wanted", "most popular")
rather than links.
* namespace localization (yes, give the non-English Wikipedians whatever goodies they
need!!)
I'm not sure about page rename:
* I like the prospect of eliminating a chain of redirects: Foo links to A, which redirects
to B, which redirects to C. If Foo should link to C, then the new feature would eliminate
two extra links -- Foo would link directly to C without any intervening redirects.
* But what about the look of the link? If I link to [[Hamlet (2000 film)]] and Mav renames
the target article to "Hamlet (2000 movie)" -- then what happens to my link?
Does it become [[Hamlet (2000 movie)]]?
I'm not sure about blocking.
*We must make sure we don't inappropriately block valid, logged-in users. (Just
yesterday, I accidentally blocked a _valid_, anonymous user who was helping clean up the
damage caused by an anonymous _vandal_; I apologized, of course, and will be more careful
in the future.) Would this feature change help prevent such mistakes?
*Jimbo had said that he reserves the right to ban logged-in users. Perhaps he meant only
people antagonizing others with historical revisionism or personal remarks -- not kids who
replace entire articles with the word "kool" -- but I'd like to see a
clarification from him.
Ed Poor