Re: [WikiEN-l] Most wanted

2011-02-07 Thread Carcharoth
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Andrew Gray wrote: > On 7 February 2011 17:46, Carcharoth wrote: > >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:KCwithOL >> >> That template alone accounts for hundreds of links. Uncollapse the >> sections to see how many there are. Maybe there should be a limit to >>

Re: [WikiEN-l] Most wanted

2011-02-07 Thread David Gerard
On 7 February 2011 19:26, Andrew Gray wrote: > On 7 February 2011 17:46, Carcharoth wrote: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:KCwithOL >> That template alone accounts for hundreds of links. Uncollapse the >> sections to see how many there are. Maybe there should be a limit to >> the number

Re: [WikiEN-l] Most wanted

2011-02-07 Thread Andrew Gray
On 7 February 2011 17:46, Carcharoth wrote: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:KCwithOL > > That template alone accounts for hundreds of links. Uncollapse the > sections to see how many there are. Maybe there should be a limit to > the number of links allows in a single template? Are we not

Re: [WikiEN-l] Most wanted

2011-02-07 Thread Carcharoth
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Magnus Manske wrote: > For years it was slightly bugging me that the "Most wanted articles" > function is deactivated. On en.wp, the last cache was generated in > October 2009. > > Well, I cooked an alternative. Listing all non-existing articles that > have at leas

Re: [WikiEN-l] Most wanted

2011-02-07 Thread Carcharoth
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Magnus Manske wrote: > Many of these links are due to templates, which I can do little about. > I hope it will still be useful to some. I took a closer look, and realised what you mean. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:KCwithOL That template alone accounts

Re: [WikiEN-l] Most wanted

2011-02-07 Thread Carcharoth
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Charles Matthews wrote: > Put it this way: if the navbox were a list, it would contribute once to > counting such a redlink, > which wouldn't distort the priorities in the same fashion. Indeed. And navbox footer templates are effectively just lists/categories tra

Re: [WikiEN-l] Most wanted

2011-02-07 Thread Charles Matthews
On 07/02/2011 15:38, Ian Woollard wrote: > On 06/02/2011, Magnus Manske wrote: >> Many of these links are due to templates, which I can do little about. >> I hope it will still be useful to some. > Is that necessarily a problem in this case? > > We still will have pages, that are potentially click

Re: [WikiEN-l] Most wanted

2011-02-07 Thread Ian Woollard
On 06/02/2011, Magnus Manske wrote: > Many of these links are due to templates, which I can do little about. > I hope it will still be useful to some. Is that necessarily a problem in this case? We still will have pages, that are potentially clickable from a large number of articles, that don't

Re: [WikiEN-l] Most wanted

2011-02-07 Thread Andrew Gray
On 7 February 2011 04:10, David Goodman wrote: > agreed. The footer templates are the biggest source of linkage bloat. > the templates are useful, and we need some way of keeping track of > what should be in them when we add or delete articles, but they make > working with what links here for any

Re: [WikiEN-l] Deletionist wanted for hire

2011-02-07 Thread Scott MacDonald
Done - thanks -Original Message- From: wikien-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Bob the Wikipedian Sent: 06 February 2011 18:48 To: English Wikipedia Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Deletionist wanted for hire It would appear to me your email

[WikiEN-l] Deletionist wanted for hire

2011-02-07 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
Some company wants to delete their competition's Wikipedia articles ? Delete its own article to clear controversies ? :) Somebody wants to try a sting operation , to find what kind of articles they want to delete ? Will be very interesting! Regards Tinu Cherian -Original Message- From:

Re: [WikiEN-l] Deletionist wanted for hire

2011-02-07 Thread Bob the Wikipedian
It would appear to me your email account is set up to use the name "wiki". Try altering it and see if that does anything. Bob On 2/6/2011 8:40 AM, wiki wrote: > It would be instructive to know what articles they are worried about and > why. I find that most people wanting articles deleted have a