On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Timwi wrote:
Timwi wrote:
Please could a sysop or admin or someone update the following pages?
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Lonelypages http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Longpages http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Shortpages http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Wantedpages
I'm really not wanting to come off as impatient, but why is nobody doing this?
Because that's the wrong way to go about it. The special pages should be rewritten to be faster so they can run live. If that's not feasible, then they should be rewritten to work off a summary table (so people can scroll to the next 50!) and which could be further improved to be updated as relevant changes occur rather than rescanning the entire set of articles at fixed intervals.
Apparently no one is interested in these pages enough to fix them. If you are, then great! Do it.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)