--- "Thomas R. Koll" tomk32@gmx.de wrote:
[...] Of course, none of this matters unless
poeple start using it.
I�ll do so now. Could you annonce that the German Wikipedia has hit 13.000 articles tonight?
Eh great ! good for you
We will soon be at 9000 on the fr
Hum, that leads me to the following points
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
2. When are we going to have the counts of hits per page up again on the english wiki ? with the new server ? when is that new server expected ? could we have any time line here ?
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 :-). 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)
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.
Some French people have replaced "comma" hunting, by "redirect" hunting, and it is making very tough (and very server demanding) to repeat two times the search when you don't remember how to get to the page about mispellings
5. About mispellings : French people are suffering a lot each time they see a mispelling; that's a biological issue I guess. Some started removing any redirection of common mispellings, upon the reason having these mispelled pages is somehow a way to give officiality (to recognise) to the mispelling. 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".
In short, google.
This is a reported suggestion
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