It's something that I found quite handy because a) it gave you somewhere to stow pages away for future reference, and b) it was a place to bring them to other's attention if they really needed something done and you didn't know enough to do it.
I also kind of miss the convenience of having a 'delete' button next to each page on the stub list... it made the cleaning up process a lot faster and a lot less tedious because you didn't have to keep backtracking quite so much.
And finally I miss the list of 'reciprocal links' on the 'what links here' pages.
But I like the list of orphaned images, and I REALLY like how blindingly fast it is to upload a photo and to link it into an article! And now the wikipedia keeps working all the time instead of only 12 hours a day :)
PS. I miss having my shortcut bar on the righthand side of the page too, but I'm getting used to the change. I realised WHY I liked it there - I use the random page button a lot and it was that much closer to the scrollbar on the righthand side of the page so it saved a little extra movement when I was browsing.
Karen AKA Kajikit wrote:
It's something that I found quite handy because a) it gave you somewhere to stow pages away for future reference, and b) it was a place to bring them to other's attention if they really needed something done and you didn't know enough to do it.
Lee arbitrarily took out the voting system; if we clamor loud enough, he promises to put it back.
Which reminds me... everybody, don't forget the bug & feature request- tracking system at the Wikipedia project page on Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=34373
Wiki pages get cluttered with this kind of thing, and mailing list messages get quickly forgotten, but the tracker won't leave us poor programmers alone until we do something about it...
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But I like the list of orphaned images,
Aha! I was looking for that up next to "Upload images" and "List images"; on another look it turns out to be way down by "List orphaned articles".
Note that there are still some limitations; it doesn't know about images and other files that are indirectly linked via a clickable URL within the English wiki, or from the various non-English wikipedias.
PS. I miss having my shortcut bar on the righthand side of the page too, but I'm getting used to the change. I realised WHY I liked it there - I use the random page button a lot and it was that much closer to the scrollbar on the righthand side of the page so it saved a little extra movement when I was browsing.
You can set it back to the righthand side in your user preferences.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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