[Wikipedia-l] Stub detector

[The Cunctator]

On 9/27/02 9:44 AM, "Magnus Manske" <magnus.manske at epost.de> wrote:

> An initial version of "stub detection" is running at Lee's test site.
> Links to stub articles (less than 500 chars) are shown in green.
> REDIRECTs are shown as normal links. For example, try
>   http://www.piclab.com/wikitest/wiki.phtml?title=Biology
> 
> I suggest to
> * make the minimum size for a "real" article a user option
> * set it to zero as standard
> which means nobody gets this special mark-up, except they choose it in
> their prefernces. That would avoid confusion, especially among newcomers
> (blue links? and red ones? and green ones?).
> Also, everybody can decide how large an article has to be at least...
> 
> PLEASE, gimme feedback, or I'll implement it as is! (just so the "hate
> it" can register in time, for once...)
> 
* They need to be underlined.

* The color should be closer to blue. If you want to go nuts, you could see
what it looks like when the color is proportional to the length. That could
be pretty cool (perhaps useful?)

* For people who don't use color-links, there should be a "!" at the end,
perhaps.