On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Merlijn van Deen <valhallasw(a)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.
--
Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation