--- Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> 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. :)
You are nothing like a lazy grumpy bastard Brion !
Just don't forget to tell us just before (so the
interested ones will be able to see the difference
:-))
2. When are we
going to have the counts of hits
per
page up again on the english wiki ? with the new
server ?
Maybe. I'm not terribly interested in the counts, so
it's a very low
priority for me. If performance picks way up (or
someone else
contributes a more server-friendly count method),
it'll go back in.
I'm interested. So, i'll come back back when
performance issues are solved
when is that
new server expected ? could we
have any time line here ?
I know nothing... Jason? Jimbo? While I'm asking,
Jimbo, how's that
foundation coming along? :)
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
:-).
Hehe... Traditionally people asked for that to keep
out the city pages
on the English wiki, which wouldn't help at all
since those pages are at
or _above_ the median article size...
Sigh. Yes. Well...most of these are under the median
article I guess. If above, they provide information at
least.
The best option would be to set categories, and to
shuffle through the categories we like of course
When I was a kid, I always picked up the same couple
of books from my parents 20 tomes encyclopedia...
But...well...would it be feasible...?
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)
Hmm, maybe. Personally I may find short articles
more fun to read than
20-page dense monstrosities on n-dimensional
topology. My personal
opinion is simply that if you don't like what the
random selection turns
up, you should keep pushing the button! It isn't
clear to me that
fudging the selection in one direction or another is
a better default.
hum...quite true. Unless pushing the button takes 30
seconds each time :-(
But, here, you hold the position of an editor; not of
a reader.
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.
yes, yes, yes !
Say...this could improve performance issues, no
?...so...could it be planned if nobody disagrees ?
Does someone disagree ?
Which categories would we define ?
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?
That's what some people ask for...
I'll report...
Question : even if hidden, would it be known by google
?
given the number of times I mispell neartic instead of
nearctic (who had the weirdest idea to put a c here),
I could be convinced I am an illiterate idiot...:-(
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