I am glad that everybody's seems SO happy by how quickly that issue was settled.
And indeed, taking very quick decisions as soon as a reasonable small number of people agree seem to be the easiest way to achieve consensus. Is everybody's happy ? great.
I am not.
Don't get me wrong. If the majority of people here think it better to switch to red links, that's ok.
But, since you were so quick, did you realise Giskart asked you a little bit of delay to have time to ask the dutch wiki ? Do you know at what time he asked the question ?
Sun, 22 Sep 2002 20:42:22 +0200 (on my screen)
Do you know what time it was when you posted it was all set, changes done, everybody happy ?
Mon, 23 Sep 2002 15:12:30 +0200 (on my screen)
That is less than 19 hours later
I read messages of your proposition to change this morning before leaving for work. No time to ask anything on the french wiki. And indeed, it would have been useless. By the time I got home, it was done.
Trivial issue ???
Nope. Don't think so.
Question : if french or dutch decide they would prefer ? rather than red, is it technically possible ?
That also triggers a few questions in my mind upon the position of international wikipedia in the existing community.
I laid them down here http://meta.wikipedia.com/wiki.phtml?title=Future_of_international_Wikipedia...
peace
--- Magnus Manske magnus.manske@epost.de wrote:
As the majority on the list (including myself) seems to favor the "red links" instead of the "?" for broken links, and after (one) positive feedback from the German list as well, I committed the appropriate change to the CVS repository. It should affect only not-logged-in users. The change will go online as soon as someone updates the running software.
Magnus
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