An initial version of "stub detection" is running at Lee's test site. Links to stub articles (less than 500 chars) are shown in green. REDIRECTs are shown as normal links. For example, try http://www.piclab.com/wikitest/wiki.phtml?title=Biology
I suggest to * make the minimum size for a "real" article a user option * set it to zero as standard which means nobody gets this special mark-up, except they choose it in their prefernces. That would avoid confusion, especially among newcomers (blue links? and red ones? and green ones?). Also, everybody can decide how large an article has to be at least...
PLEASE, gimme feedback, or I'll implement it as is! (just so the "hate it" can register in time, for once...)
Magnus
P.S.: Same goes for the "Special:Maintenance" page at the same place, while you're at it :-)
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 03:44:15PM +0200, Magnus Manske wrote:
An initial version of "stub detection" is running at Lee's test site. Links to stub articles (less than 500 chars) are shown in green. REDIRECTs are shown as normal links. For example, try http://www.piclab.com/wikitest/wiki.phtml?title=Biology
Oooh, shiny. Except the green links aren't underlined, but the rest are.
As an aside, I'd forgotten the default was to underline links. How intensely ugly. Urgh.
I suggest to
- make the minimum size for a "real" article a user option
- set it to zero as standard
Sounds good - I don't see how somebody could have grounds for complaint...
Magnus Manske wrote:
An initial version of "stub detection" is running at Lee's test site. Links to stub articles (less than 500 chars) are shown in green. REDIRECTs are shown as normal links. For example, try http://www.piclab.com/wikitest/wiki.phtml?title=Biology
I suggest to
- make the minimum size for a "real" article a user option
- set it to zero as standard
which means nobody gets this special mark-up, except they choose it in their prefernces. That would avoid confusion, especially among newcomers (blue links? and red ones? and green ones?). Also, everybody can decide how large an article has to be at least...
PLEASE, gimme feedback, or I'll implement it as is! (just so the "hate it" can register in time, for once...)
Magnus
P.S.: Same goes for the "Special:Maintenance" page at the same place, while you're at it :-)
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Excellent! I like it.
But please make the default setting say 250 chars. This will find the most gratuitous stubs, without affecting many real articles.
Neil
On 9/27/02 9:44 AM, "Magnus Manske" magnus.manske@epost.de wrote:
An initial version of "stub detection" is running at Lee's test site. Links to stub articles (less than 500 chars) are shown in green. REDIRECTs are shown as normal links. For example, try http://www.piclab.com/wikitest/wiki.phtml?title=Biology
I suggest to
- make the minimum size for a "real" article a user option
- set it to zero as standard
which means nobody gets this special mark-up, except they choose it in their prefernces. That would avoid confusion, especially among newcomers (blue links? and red ones? and green ones?). Also, everybody can decide how large an article has to be at least...
PLEASE, gimme feedback, or I'll implement it as is! (just so the "hate it" can register in time, for once...)
* They need to be underlined.
* The color should be closer to blue. If you want to go nuts, you could see what it looks like when the color is proportional to the length. That could be pretty cool (perhaps useful?)
* For people who don't use color-links, there should be a "!" at the end, perhaps.
At 03:44 PM 9/27/02 +0200, Magnus wrote:
An initial version of "stub detection" is running at Lee's test site. Links to stub articles (less than 500 chars) are shown in green. REDIRECTs are shown as normal links. For example, try http://www.piclab.com/wikitest/wiki.phtml?title=Biology
I suggest to
- make the minimum size for a "real" article a user option
- set it to zero as standard
which means nobody gets this special mark-up, except they choose it in their prefernces. That would avoid confusion, especially among newcomers (blue links? and red ones? and green ones?). Also, everybody can decide how large an article has to be at least...
I'd like an option to have the stubs in green, as they are, and the nonexistent pages with question marks instead of red. Red is attention-getting, but I read it as "hey! Look! Something cool!" rather than as "Hey! Help with this!"
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