On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Merlijn van Deen <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've fiddled a bit with this in the style of tail numbers / actual > radio call signa: first letter is a category (country in a call sign), > the rest is assigned as a number, unless someone wants a specific one. > The other day some of us were discussing something along these lines on IRC;[1] unfortunately that doesn't seem to have made it to the mailing list. We wound up liking something very similar to this, except we skipped the "unless someone wants a specific one" part. Always randomly assigning the number for everyone means no worry over conflicts. [1]: http://bots.wmflabs.org/~wm-bot/logs/%23mediawiki-core/20141126.txt starting around 15:27 > Categories: > AN - analytics > AP - apps > CI - integration > LT - labs/tools > PH - phabricator > PW - pywikibot > IMO it would be nice if the categories could all be the same length instead of some being one character and some being two. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
