--- Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 23:52, Anthere wrote:
- Was the count system for pages changed ? If it
was,
when was it ? When it is changed, could it be announced on the "announced list" please ? It will also need to be made obvious on the stats pages
The official vote results were to count pages in article space that are:
- not completely empty (size greater than 0 bytes)
- contain at least one link (search for "[[" should
do)
Unless someone else snuck it in and forgot to tell me, the change has not yet been put in effect, as I'm a lazy, grumpy bastard and way way too busy of late. :)
You are nothing like a lazy grumpy bastard Brion ! Just don't forget to tell us just before (so the interested ones will be able to see the difference :-))
- When are we going to have the counts of hits
per
page up again on the english wiki ? with the new server ?
Maybe. I'm not terribly interested in the counts, so it's a very low priority for me. If performance picks way up (or someone else contributes a more server-friendly count method), it'll go back in.
I'm interested. So, i'll come back back when performance issues are solved
when is that new server expected ? could we have any time line here ?
I know nothing... Jason? Jimbo? While I'm asking, Jimbo, how's that foundation coming along? :)
- Could it be possible that the "random page" be
(per
option) chosen with a size threashold ? This would
be
to avoid all these pages about dates and french
little
villages that keep on appearing on random pages
:-).
Hehe... Traditionally people asked for that to keep out the city pages on the English wiki, which wouldn't help at all since those pages are at or _above_ the median article size...
Sigh. Yes. Well...most of these are under the median article I guess. If above, they provide information at least. The best option would be to set categories, and to shuffle through the categories we like of course When I was a kid, I always picked up the same couple of books from my parents 20 tomes encyclopedia...
But...well...would it be feasible...?
Editors would put the option without threashold
for
article-to-improve, and readers would have a threashold to remove stubs when just chasing interesting articles to *read* (this request reported from some french people)
Hmm, maybe. Personally I may find short articles more fun to read than 20-page dense monstrosities on n-dimensional topology. My personal opinion is simply that if you don't like what the random selection turns up, you should keep pushing the button! It isn't clear to me that fudging the selection in one direction or another is a better default.
hum...quite true. Unless pushing the button takes 30 seconds each time :-( But, here, you hold the position of an editor; not of a reader.
- Could we slightly improve the search box, maybe
by
having a drop down menu aside from it : search in encyclopedia by default as right now, search in personnal pages, search in meta pages...but have
it at
first level, not on a second page, after a first unfruitful search.
Yes, that would be lovely.
yes, yes, yes !
Say...this could improve performance issues, no ?...so...could it be planned if nobody disagrees ?
Does someone disagree ? Which categories would we define ?
So, since others protest and undelete the redirections, some asked if it would be possible
to
somehow catch mispellings, redirect the mispelled title to the right-spelled page, *and* dynamically display a message at the top of the article saying "you asked for "fachisme", this word does not
exist,
and is probably a mispelling of "fascisme".
It has in the past been suggested to have a special type of redirect for misspellings. These could have a "you're an illiterate idiot, from now on please type 'X'" message display when visited or searched, but be hidden from lists like the Allpages list or general search results.
Would that be a help?
That's what some people ask for... I'll report... Question : even if hidden, would it be known by google ?
given the number of times I mispell neartic instead of nearctic (who had the weirdest idea to put a c here), I could be convinced I am an illiterate idiot...:-(
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