On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 23:52, Anthere wrote:
1. 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. :)
2. 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? :)
3. 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.
4. 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)