[Wikipedia-l] Stub detector

[Vicki Rosenzweig]

At 03:44 PM 9/27/02 +0200, Magnus 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...

I'd like an option to have the stubs in green, as they are, and the 
nonexistent pages
with question marks instead of red. Red is attention-getting, but I read it 
as "hey! Look!
Something cool!" rather than as "Hey! Help with this!"

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Vicki Rosenzweig
vr at redbird.org
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