On 6/28/05, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Klaus-Eduard Runnel wrote:
On 6/27/05, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, Yes there is a way to find the number of articles in a given language and the number of languages on a wiktionary, check out the 271 languages on the nl.wikipedia http://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/Categorie:taal.
Actually, the category page tells that "Er zijn 200 woorden in deze
rubriek"
("There are 200 articles in this category"), when the number is greater
than
- A fellow wiktionarian just pointed it out to me this morning. Seems
to
be an old bug. I'll check the buglist later today...
Klaus
Hoi, This is not a bug but a "feature". This was installed to make the query of how many articles there are less expensive to run. You get 200 articles but also the option to see the next 200 articles. It is the best that is available at the moment. If the 1.5 software is more efficient, it may be possible to give us the number .. that is for the developers to decide.
I'd say that a misleading message is a bug. At least that's what they tell you at the software testing lectures. At least that's what they taught me :)
A message like "There are 200 articles in this category" is clearly misleading when there's actually some 4000 articles in the category. It's really hard to find out the number of articles in the category following all those "next 200" links. My database skills may be a bit rusty, but it is quite suprising to hear that a query to find out the number of entries to a category is so expensive that one should avoid it. Maybe you can point me to a discussion on that matter? I might want to get enlightened :)
Klaus