On 30 Mar 2003, Brion Vibber wrote:
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. :)
Well, I did notice that the article count for Japanese has skyrocketed (from 251 to 3337 in two weeks); I thought this was because of the new counting method. If not, the Japanese are to be congratulated on their productivity.
- 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.
I agree.
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?
Please do not use this kind of message - in most cases the person ending up on a misspelled page is NOT the one who MADE the misspelling, just the one who READ it.
Andre Engels