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wiki pedista

7 Jul 2003 7 Jul '03

1:44 p.m.

Today I noticed that in the new pages listing, some titles are acompinied with the name of the first author, but the summary written by the last editor. Is this a bug or an intended behaviour? AstroNomer __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com

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Timwi

7 Jul 7 Jul

4:18 p.m.

Today I noticed that in the new pages listing, some titles are acompinied with the name of the first author, but the summary written by the last editor. Is this a bug or an intended behaviour?

I don't know if the original author of it intended this behaviour, but it is at least documented at http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_Changes Timwi

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Kurt Jansson

6:51 p.m.

wiki pedista wrote:

Today I noticed that in the new pages listing, some titles are acompinied with the name of the first author, but the summary written by the last editor. Is this a bug or an intended behaviour?

It's a bit confusing, but it helps to sort out new articles which have already been wikified/copyedited/... by others. Maybe there should be a short explanation on top of the page. Kurt

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Brion Vibber

8 Jul 8 Jul

3:10 a.m.

wiki pedista wrote:

Today I noticed that in the new pages listing, some titles are acompinied with the name of the first author, but the summary written by the last editor. Is this a bug or an intended behaviour?

Bug! Thanks for the catch. For the curious, here's the diff where I switched it from using cur to the recentchanges table and introduced the bug by grabbing the field from the wrong table: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/wikipedia/phpwiki/newcodebas… Fix is installed. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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Jens Frank

2:28 p.m.

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 12:10:40AM -0700, Brion Vibber wrote:

wiki pedista wrote:

Today I noticed that in the new pages listing, some titles are acompinied with the name of the first author, but the summary written by the last editor. Is this a bug or an intended behaviour?

Bug! Thanks for the catch. For the curious, here's the diff where I switched it from using cur to the recentchanges table and introduced the bug by grabbing the field from the wrong table: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/wikipedia/phpwiki/newcodebas… Fix is installed.

Feature! This eases scanning for grafitti pages a lot. Edit comments like "wikified" help to sort out which articles have already been proofread. Regards, JeLuF

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Brion Vibber

3:46 p.m.

Jens Frank wrote:

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 12:10:40AM -0700, Brion Vibber wrote:

Bug! Thanks for the catch.

Feature! This eases scanning for grafitti pages a lot. Edit comments like "wikified" help to sort out which articles have already been proofread.

Then rewrite it to be useful about it, counting the number of edits and who made them. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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Kurt Jansson

9 Jul 9 Jul

10:02 a.m.

Brion Vibber wrote:

Then rewrite it to be useful about it, counting the number of edits and who made them.

That would be helpful too, but wouldn't a short explanation suffice to put the "bug" back in - like "This page lists new articles, the authors or their IP and their last edit comments (which might be by someone else). This is to help sort out articles which have already been proofread." (Please rewrite it in better English.) Kurt

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