Wikipedia talk:Categories for discussion/Archive debates

Index

I see someone has (sort of) started an index on this page. I think it would be worthwhile to build on this, and have an index where people can find specific discussions without searching through months worth of individual daily logs. I think, perhaps, it should be on a separate page, though. With links to all the daily logs, plus a full index, this could get extremely unwieldly. The way I'd set it up would be to have the name of a category, the final decision and a link to the full discussion. This way people can see the results at a glance, if they're interested, without going off to the log page. Comments? --Azkar 22:59, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

• I've started building an index at Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Archive debates/Index. --Azkar 02:30, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
• I made my own program and covered July and August backlogs. — HopeSeekr of xMule (Talk) 23:22, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

Updating?

Is anyone going to continue keeping the indices up to date? I notice the latest work along these lines was done by Who (partial alphabetical October 2005 index), but the last chronological index was contributed by HopeSeekr of xMule (for July 2005). Rick Block has also been involved (for example, contributing the alphabetical index for June 2005). So who's going to provide the missing indices? - dcljr (talk) 02:19, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

The script I used to generate the ones I posted is at User:Rick Block/CFDindexer. user:HopeSeekr of xMule independently wrote a C++ program to do basically the same thing. I could make my script somewhat smarter, but it should basically work for anyone with either a Mac or a Linux machine. If no one does this before I do, I'll run it and upload the indices when I get a chance. -- Rick Block (talk) 02:45, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Hmm, I tried to run it on my osx machine at work, but haven't managed to get it to run successfully. I suspect user error. ;) However, now that I see how you did it, it wouldn't be hard for me to write a script in IDL to do it (tho that would be useless to others without idl). --Syrthiss 13:31, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

FWIW (a month and a half after this discussion...) I finally had time to finish my IDL version of Rick Block's software. I just created the November 2005 date index, and want to do some tweaks of it before I do the alpha index. Mostly I want to fix a problem where some of the decisions include html links and I want to either rip the html out or replace it with wiki markup. I also have an idea that maybe the alphabetical indices might benefit from having the page separated into 27 separate tables for A-Z + numbers, with a toc at the top. I just want to get the indices up first and I'll work on refinements later. I'll also provide the source code here when I'm done with this revision. --Syrthiss 16:27, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

I've been updating the alpha indices, the latest is November's, and have fairly recently made some improvements to the shell/awk script I've been using. I don't exactly care if you want to use something different to generate them, but if you do please make sure it's at least as functional. -- Rick Block (talk) 01:21, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Grouping

It would be more consistent to list the months from last to first inside the years to provide a continuous chronological overview. 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 12:36, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

@GeoffreyT2000: Any comments? 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 20:23, 31 December 2020 (UTC)