From: Michael Hardy hardy@math.mit.edu Hello. Two useful features added to Wikipedia would be:

o Allowing a comment when one moves a page, so that one can justify the move to the world.

Could be helpful, yes.

o Causing the "Recent changes" page _not_ to reload every time one returns to it, or at least making it possible to set one's preferences that way, so that one need not wait the sometimes unduly long time that it takes for it to display 500 changes (if 500 is, as in my case, how one sets one's preferences).

It won't reload if it hasn't changed since you last visited it. However on the english-language 'pedia this is unlikely. ;)

If you don't want changed pages to reload when you visit them again, it's *your* responsibility to set your browsing habits accordingly:

* Don't use a browser that forces refreshes when using back/forward or * Keep a separate window or tab open for that page, and open links in other windows/tabs.

Is there any way to speed up the process of getting Google to detect a Wikipedia page? I'm not sure how many weeks it takes, but maybe between four and ten. -- Mike

Well, we could pay google to scan the site more often. Keep in mind that google still isn't finished with the scan of our site that it started last month.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)