On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Jan Hidders wrote:
From: kband@www.llamacom.com
Why should I have to do that if it can be automated?
Putting in many days of work into making the most popular entries on the site (pat pat) is ridiculous. Having automatic functionality making that work easier isn't.
You are right, and ridiculous is certainly not a word that I would have used. But the thing is that by making such things easier we also stimulate the creation of subpages which, as Larry will explain to you if his wife lets him, :-), is something that we'd rather not have in Wikipedia. Maybe you don't agree with that, but then you should try to convince Larry and the rest of the Wikipedia-gang that subpages are a good thing. That won't be easy.
You'd actually have a hard time convincing me that it's worth spending any more bandwidth discussing it at all.
(Wife is calling me to dinner right now. :-) )
Larry