Plus it would slow down making redirects to cut boilerplate text. I do a
lot of redirects ... I do mean thousands.
I was going to say, it should be possible to disable this feature for experienced users.
Maybe. OTOH, just have a look through [[Special:Newpages]] on a Sunday afternoon US time. You'll consider hitting Ctrl-A before typing #REDIRECT to be a small price to pay.
- d.
Maybe the preformat should appear only when an IP address creates a page...
- another d.
Maybe the preformat should appear only when an IP address creates a page...
Except that IPs can't create pages in the main namespace. :p Don't recall how long ago that was disabled.
All in all, this seems like an interesting idea, but also like something that might be easier to work out on-wiki than off. Anybody care to suggest a particular sandbox to play around in?
On 11/30/06, dmehkeri@swi.com dmehkeri@swi.com wrote:
Plus it would slow down making redirects to cut boilerplate text. I
do a
lot of redirects ... I do mean thousands.
I was going to say, it should be possible to disable this feature for experienced users.
Maybe. OTOH, just have a look through [[Special:Newpages]] on a Sunday afternoon US time. You'll consider hitting Ctrl-A before typing #REDIRECT to be a small price to pay.
- d.
Maybe the preformat should appear only when an IP address creates a page...
- another d.
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Luna wrote:
Maybe the preformat should appear only when an IP address creates a page...
Except that IPs can't create pages in the main namespace. :p Don't recall how long ago that was disabled.
December 5, 2005 [http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2005-December/033880.html]. It was described as an "experiment" at the time, but as far as I'm aware no analysis has been done. I raise the issue every once in a while to check on it, I guess with the one-year anniversary coming up it's that time again. Anyone know if anything's been posted?
My own view is that when Brion completes the "flagging" system (sometimes known as "stable versions" sometimes known as "non vandalized versions") then upon it's release, we should change this restriction.
In my opinion, it did not achieve the intended effect.
Bryan Derksen wrote:
Luna wrote:
Maybe the preformat should appear only when an IP address creates a page...
Except that IPs can't create pages in the main namespace. :p Don't recall how long ago that was disabled.
December 5, 2005 [http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2005-December/033880.html]. It was described as an "experiment" at the time, but as far as I'm aware no analysis has been done. I raise the issue every once in a while to check on it, I guess with the one-year anniversary coming up it's that time again. Anyone know if anything's been posted?
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