On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 23:52, Anthere wrote:
- Was the count system for pages changed ? If it was,
when was it ? When it is changed, could it be announced on the "announced list" please ? It will also need to be made obvious on the stats pages
The official vote results were to count pages in article space that are: * not completely empty (size greater than 0 bytes) * contain at least one link (search for "[[" should do)
Unless someone else snuck it in and forgot to tell me, the change has not yet been put in effect, as I'm a lazy, grumpy bastard and way way too busy of late. :)
- When are we going to have the counts of hits per
page up again on the english wiki ? with the new server ?
Maybe. I'm not terribly interested in the counts, so it's a very low priority for me. If performance picks way up (or someone else contributes a more server-friendly count method), it'll go back in.
when is that new server expected ? could we have any time line here ?
I know nothing... Jason? Jimbo? While I'm asking, Jimbo, how's that foundation coming along? :)
- Could it be possible that the "random page" be (per
option) chosen with a size threashold ? This would be to avoid all these pages about dates and french little villages that keep on appearing on random pages :-).
Hehe... Traditionally people asked for that to keep out the city pages on the English wiki, which wouldn't help at all since those pages are at or _above_ the median article size...
Editors would put the option without threashold for article-to-improve, and readers would have a threashold to remove stubs when just chasing interesting articles to *read* (this request reported from some french people)
Hmm, maybe. Personally I may find short articles more fun to read than 20-page dense monstrosities on n-dimensional topology. My personal opinion is simply that if you don't like what the random selection turns up, you should keep pushing the button! It isn't clear to me that fudging the selection in one direction or another is a better default.
- Could we slightly improve the search box, maybe by
having a drop down menu aside from it : search in encyclopedia by default as right now, search in personnal pages, search in meta pages...but have it at first level, not on a second page, after a first unfruitful search.
Yes, that would be lovely.
So, since others protest and undelete the redirections, some asked if it would be possible to somehow catch mispellings, redirect the mispelled title to the right-spelled page, *and* dynamically display a message at the top of the article saying "you asked for "fachisme", this word does not exist, and is probably a mispelling of "fascisme".
It has in the past been suggested to have a special type of redirect for misspellings. These could have a "you're an illiterate idiot, from now on please type 'X'" message display when visited or searched, but be hidden from lists like the Allpages list or general search results.
Would that be a help?
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)