On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Merlijn van Deen valhallasw@arctus.nl wrote:
I've fiddled a bit with this in the style of tail numbers / actual radio call signa: first letter is a category (country in a call sign), the rest is assigned as a number, unless someone wants a specific one.
The other day some of us were discussing something along these lines on IRC;[1] unfortunately that doesn't seem to have made it to the mailing list. We wound up liking something very similar to this, except we skipped the "unless someone wants a specific one" part. Always randomly assigning the number for everyone means no worry over conflicts.
[1]: http://bots.wmflabs.org/~wm-bot/logs/%23mediawiki-core/20141126.txt starting around 15:27
Categories: AN - analytics AP - apps CI - integration LT - labs/tools PH - phabricator PW - pywikibot
IMO it would be nice if the categories could all be the same length instead of some being one character and some being two.