User talk:Alphax/20050406-01

Disambiguation pages (sticky)

I noticed that you've done some disambiguation on [[British]] and others. I've been trying to do this as well. Any possibility of starting a project to do it? You can reply to this section. Thanks, Alphax ^τεχ 09:47, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

How would you envisage this working? Rich Farmbrough 11:24, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Ok, people check Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links (and the more updated one) and Category:Disambiguation for things to disambiguate. Where there is a clear alternative for a link target (eg. United States vs. America), it is inserted; where there is not, it is discussed. I realise the difficulty in maintaining such a thing, but ultimately, links to disambiguation pages lead to 2 pages being loaded per link followed - increasing server load and slowing down Wikipedia. Alphax ^τεχ 09:18, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Perhaps we need a Wikipedia:Disambiguation queries page. OTOh the people who are best placed to decide will be the regular editors of the page, if any. Rich Farmbrough 13:37, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The hardest part is determining which disambiguation pages have the most incoming links - best determined by database dumps. In some disambiguation cases it's difficult to decide which alternative is best suited, so we need language & grammer experts working this (I'm neither). I wonder if we should post an expression of interest to the Village Pump or mailing list... Alphax ^τεχ 15:56, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I'm statting the diambiguation links from a database dump. Rich Farmbrough 19:35, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Cool! Where will you put them? Alphax ^τεχ 04:14, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Offline reports/This is one of the most linked to disambiguation pages Note that these sub-pages don't seem to update the main page unless it's edited. This could be due to using the Paris caches. Same could apply to the "You have new messages" Rich Farmbrough 10:14, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Have you seen Template:Purge? Or my monobook.js and monobook.css (copied from ABCD's? Anyway, good to see the list updated again. How often will the script be run? Alphax ^τεχ 12:37, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

It takes a few minutes of user time to do it, so whenever I notice the databse has been updated I will run it. Rich Farmbrough 16:47, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Time to reset the indent level... Now to rope in more people to help... Alphax ^τεχ 07:31, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

New database dump being d/l'd as we speak. Rich Farmbrough 15:57, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Cool... do you know of any other people that would regularly check these? I was wondering how long it would take to de-populate the incoming links. Alphax ^τεχ 00:22, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Page updated now. Rich Farmbrough 11:00, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hey! The page was moved and is now part of Template:Active Wiki Fixup Projects. Good job! Alphax ^τεχ 12:13, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

BTW an new list is now uploaded. Rich Farmbrough 10:44, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

Neat. Alphax ^τεχ 05:48, 20 May 2005 (UTC)