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[edit] columnating the lists?
This may be impossible or too much work for you, I don't know, but it would be nice if this script could at least columnate the lists, as right now the titles bleed into each other.
- So far there is almost no formatting, so indeed I would be glad if someone came with a way to make the list more usable. I think it will not be trivial, though, because some titles are very long. Nicolas1981 06:14, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
Otherwise, I can just imagine how useful this would be in the hands of a band of deletionists! I'm going to watch this page, maybe I can do some AfDs based on it.
- I am rather an inclusionist than a deletionist. My goal with this list is really to improve articles. I am optimistic, that's the way Wikipedia works in my opinion: the more people involved, the better the content. Nicolas1981 06:14, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] problem #1 found
See 4 yo information - the page was salted, but it came up in your list.
Maybe there's some way you can check each article in the list to see if it starts with the deletedpage tag?
- Thanks for your report ! The list is not dynamic. It is produced on a given day, and some parts will probably be outdated on the next day. Also, it depends on the correctness of [1]. I haven't figured out any way to fix this so far :-( It should not be a major problem if the list is updated regularly enough, let's say one per month. Nicolas1981 06:14, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Beyond A?
My first suggestion is to somehow give something beyond the abbreviations beginning with A. All of the articles currently listed have a high probability of not being fun to edit, while article titles that begin with words or names would be less intimidating, at least for this editor. --Evil1987 21:49, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
- Indeed, I have just processed a tiny fraction of Wikipedia, so far. I am traveling/couchsurfing in Japan right now so it is not easy for me to run it. If someone has CPU-time available, it would be kind to run the script on the rest. You will need to install Java and Groovy, then just run the script. Modify the INITIAL_INDEX_URL variable to start from AKK (disambiguation). Then edit the ASE page and append the produced list (found in the generated plaza.txt file). It works on Ubuntu Linux, never tried on other systems, let me know. Nicolas1981 06:14, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Too large
This page is 238kb, which is making my browser very slow, and also frequently doesn't load properly (resulting in a completely blank page, with no source code transmitted, but the browser-status-bar claims the load is "done" (firefox-latest, linux, plenty RAM)). Needs to be split or something similar. -- Quiddity (talk) 06:41, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
- I am using Firefox+Linux too, and indeed the page is often blank. And history diffs just never works :-( If anyone has an idea on how to split, feel free to ! It would be nice to let at least some of the chunks on the main project page, though, in order to quickly show something to visitors, and avoid expensive clicks. Nicolas1981 (talk) 18:39, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
