On 30 Mar 2003, Brion Vibber wrote:
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. :)
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.
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.
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