It's Christmas time, the time to give gifts to your significant other. Now, being Wikipedians, Wikipedia is pretty much a significant other in some ways. So, what gift(s) do you wish Wikipedia could have this holiday season? Anything and everything is fair game - wish for anything you want.
For example, I wish Wikipedia could have for Christmas...
... an automated VFD tabulator ... RSS/Atom syndication for watchlists ... en in UTF-8 ... a print version of "Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense" ... category redirects
(these do not represent my personal views, but just a way to get the ball rolling)
Of course, there is that other question, what gifts can you give to Wikipedia this holiday season? Me, I'd like to contribute to the following:
* [[Churchill Bowl]] * Any Wikipedia policy on episode lists of TV series
Hello,
kelvSYC wrote: <snip>
For example, I wish Wikipedia could have for Christmas...
... an automated VFD tabulator
Maybe an extension can be made to add a "request for deletion" tab in the interface that will then take care of creating the entry for you. That will surely be an interesting enhancement to VfD.
... RSS/Atom syndication for watchlists
That one can probably be made easily but on wikipedia I think watchlist overload the database servers so we don't really want to have rss aggregator to request watchlists every 10 minutes ;o)
... en in UTF-8
That one probably need a long maintenance window with en locked for some days.
... a print version of "Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense"
... category redirects
That one should ship with 1.4 although there is still a minor bug with it when you redirect from a category to another namespace (list of category is shown). See http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=710
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* A search system that is always on and has all articles (something's terribly wrong at WikiCommons's search) * A working maintenance page * Working or more often updated special pages
... en in UTF-8
Hey, we at nl: go first! One year ago it was already promised that it would happen "next weekend or maybe the one after." It still hasn't, whereas de: DID get it in the meantime.
Andre Engels
wikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org