1 Aug 2001 19:10
1 Aug 2001 20:00
Edit Lock problems
> I'm getting editing locks on everything right now too. Just a quick reminder: *anyone* can clear the editing lock by visiting this URL: http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?action=unlock If the lock is stuck, it will take about 1 minute and then return a message about a "forced" unlock. Eventually I will probably make the locks self-clearing, or possibly check the time of the lock and remove ones that are too old. --Cliff
1 Aug 2001 23:01
Re: Edit Lock problems and a question
>> I'm getting editing locks on everything right now too. > >Just a quick reminder: *anyone* can clear the editing lock by >visiting this URL: > >http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?action=unlock > etc. Ok, thanks. A question: I mentioned in the feature requests that a search for "John MacDonald" will not turn up "John A. MacDonald" or "John D MacDonald". So I tried to search for _ , with the purpose of changing them back to spaces so that those terms will turn up in searches. But that search returned 6055 pages, which is a problem in itself, but the onethat I checked did not contain an underscore at all. Is there some way to perform this search accurately?0
2 Aug 2001 10:27
Searching
Could the search option be changed so that it gives the pages linking to a certain page, rather than the pages containing a certain phrase? As things are now, a page with "... is an actor who always wears panama hats" (or even "The panamarican highway" will show up in a search for Panama, but "... the [[Panama|Panamese]] prime minister..." will not. I think such a search could also be made faster than the current one. -- -- Andre Engels, engels@... Telephone: +31(0)6-11181398 (GSM) http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/index_en.html PGP Public key: see http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/pgp.asc If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all -- Noam Chomsky
2 Aug 2001 11:04
Re: Edit Lock problems and a question
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 02:01:08PM -0700, koyaanisqatsi@... wrote: > > A question: I mentioned in the feature requests that a search for > "John MacDonald" will not turn up "John A. MacDonald" or "John D > MacDonald". So I tried to search for _ , with the purpose of changing > them back to spaces so that those terms will turn up in searches. But > that search returned 6055 pages, which is a problem in itself, but the > one
2 Aug 2001 11:14
Re: Searching
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 10:27:20AM +0200, Andre Engels wrote: > Could the search option be changed so that it gives the pages linking to > a certain page, rather than the pages containing a certain phrase? As things > are now, a page with "... is an actor who always wears panama hats" (or > even "The panamarican highway" will show up in a search for Panama, but > "... the [[Panama|Panamese]] prime minister..." will not. I think such a > search could also be made faster than the current one. Hallo Andre, I usually do that by searching for "\[\[[pP]anama". You probably know why and how this works. Kind regards, -- Jan Hidders PS. We hebben elkaar al eens in de Mensa ontmoet, geloof ik.
2 Aug 2001 11:21
Re: Searching
Jan Hidders wrote: > PS. We hebben elkaar al eens in de Mensa ontmoet, geloof ik.
3 Aug 2001 01:03
3 Aug 2001 17:20
Suggestioins for improved search
Hello, I think most users mainly want to search on article titles, not on full text. Maybe that should be the default behavior of the search box (changeable in preferences?). Then there should be an "Advanced search" page where you can do full text search with regular expressions and all the fixings. This would be used by authors, but users could also see a link to this page on their list of returned search results. I think search results would become more relevant and searching would become quicker. Alternatively, one could modify the presentation of search results so that those articles whose title matches the search string are listed first, followed by the article body matches. Also, I don't think it helps to have subpages listed as indented. Indentation suggests one of two things: the indented entries are not as important as the others, or they belong together into some group, neither of which applies to the search results. I think it would be easier to scan the search results if all results would be indented except for the first one of every letter, like this: Axiom Arian nation Austria Denmark Fishing(Continue reading)
3 Aug 2001 17:48
Re: Edit Lock problems and a question
Interesting. But so how would I go about finding all pages containing an underscore in the text (so that I can change them to spaces if they are in article titles as a cache-bug fix, so that the term will then turn up in a search)? Is it currently possible? I'm just curious because I imagine that most people will search for e.g. "Puerto Rico," not "Puerto*Rico." >Since you can use regulare expressions you might try looking for > > John.*MacDonald > >The problem with the '_' is that Gareth also searches the titles of the >articles in the form where the spaces are replaced with underscores. So the >result of the search contains also all the articles with a space in the >title. Perhaps the search should be limited to the body of the articles? I >think it would be nice anyway to have a separate search for bodies and >titles. > >Kind regards, > >-- Jan Hidders >[Wikipedia-l] >To manage your subscription to this list, please go here: >http://www.nupedia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l >0
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