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Traffic

Hi, I have an idea to increase traffic to Misplaced Pages significantly. Many people are now using Misplaced Pages as a search engine. Misplaced Pages's searching has a snag which needs some good coding. There are perhaps more than 1 million misspelled searches being made every day... how do i know? I don't, it could be much more than one million, you find out. My idea, which has probably been thought of before is to supply a - Did you mean Such as Such? - by matching misspelled words and terms to their most relevant article. At present this is in place suggestion for terminology sorting based on relevancy, but not for misspellings. Please let me know what you think, and if you could assist with proposing it. Thanks. frummer 00:54, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

I agree. I commonly make typos while I type out an article name in the search box, and leaves me frustrated since I have to type it all over again or at least waste time correcting a single letter that I typed incorrectly. ~~Eugene2x ☺ ~~ 02:02, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Happy holidays !

You may want to consider endorsing this petition: User_talk:Friday#Petition_to_recall_User:Friday_from_the_position_of_admin. StuRat 13:18, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Question

Have you seen this?--CJ King 19:58, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Cutting Down An Article

I just did major shortening of the plot summary of Cars (film), and I'd just like someone to check it over to see if I haven't overdone it or if I should cut down on more. How's it look at the moment? I'm also considering making a separate article for the cast. (I thought about doing another page for the references but didn't as the created page would probably get an AfD for fancruft.) Would the cast page be a good idea however? -WarthogDemon 00:44, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

User:Cydebot

Hi Cyde: I was curious, how does your bot clear the WP:CFD backlog? Do you manually input the categories, or does the bot read the WP:CFDW page? —Mets501 (talk) 02:54, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

The bot reads WP:CFDW and is capable of doing everything automagically, but I personally confirm the run first to make sure there aren't any mistakes. --Cyde Weys 02:58, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Care like sharing the code so MetsBot can help out (and I'll alter the code so it works at WP:CFD/WU too)? :-) Is it written in python? —Mets501 (talk) 03:02, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, it uses a proprietary AI library and API, and thus it really cannot be shared. I know it's against the spirit of open source and yadda yadda yadda ... but I just wanted something that would work without having to build everything from scratch. As for user categories, sorry, I have no interest whatsoever in working with them. I'm here for the encyclopedia, not the social networking, and if I had my way all user categories would be deleted over night. Keep in mind that we have only one category namespace, and having encyclopedic categories mixed in with fluff like "Wikipedians who chose Bulbasaur as their first Pokemon" is a travesty. I'd rather keep the user categories as fragmented and disorganized as possible; hopefully that will mean fewer people using them. --Cyde Weys 03:07, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

OK, thanks anyway. —Mets501 (talk) 03:10, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Stay away from those user categories — them's bad luck. --Cyde Weys 03:12, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

I was going to create category:Users who hate user categories, but I couldn't decide whether to join it or not. Newyorkbrad 03:53, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

You're reminding me of the conundrum I faced with this little Pandora's box:

UBX	This user absolutely hates userboxes.

--Cyde Weys 04:06, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Bertrand Russell would be proud. Newyorkbrad 04:12, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Regarding Borderline/a_Kiwi_temp

I was directed by a admin to create this page in order to have a page where editors can work on a mass Scheduled for Deletion. She (Zeraeph) put them all in in-line mode, hidden from view, so no one can find them to edit. She did this yesterday morning, they all will be deleted. She brooks no disagreement.

See Here - http://en.wikipedia.org/User_talk:A_Kiwi#Following_things_from_VPT_post What you want on your article revision is a temporary page, which is usually created as a sub-page. So Borderline Personality Disorder (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) is cut out and copied into Borderline Personality Disorder/Kiwi's Temp. Everyone can edit it, talk about it, and such 'offline' from the main pages. - FrankB

Thank you for setting your VandalBot from deleting this page, BUT since this will be happening regularly now, it will be named it ---- Borderline/POV_work_page --Kiwi 20:29, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Question about IAR

Hello Cyde, I hope I'm not bugging you and please don't take this as votestacking, it's really not meant to be, but I'm trying to determine whether or not IAR applies in this MFD. If I am correct, in the Esperanza MFD you denied the argument of IAR to protect it, or maybe that was in the coffee lounge games, or maybe it wasn't you at all, but in any case maybe you can explain if it applies. Thank you! DoomsDay349 23:02, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

The way I interpret WP:IAR, it means that actions should be taken for the good of the project, even when a large number of people exist who are arguing against such actions. In this instance, it is clear that Misplaced Pages is an encyclopedia and not an online games host. Even if a substantial number of people do not understand this and show up to "vote" Keep in the MFD, it shouldn't matter; it should be deleted anyway because it is against the goals of Misplaced Pages. That is how IAR should work. --Cyde Weys 23:26, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank you Cyde! I think someone else has clarified this on the MFD, but if neccessary I'll quote you. Thanks again. DoomsDay349 01:27, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Well done

Well Cyde, you started all this . I think you were quite right to bring all that has been going on out into the open. I hope you have achieved your goal. Giano 19:51, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I am happy with the overall outcome. --Cyde Weys 20:42, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

That's good, I rather thought you would be. Giano 20:46, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Actually, you wouldn't think I'd be happy, but then again, I know something that you do not. --Cyde Weys 20:47, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Would it be in order to ask what that means? asks a curious Newyorkbrad 22:23, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Speaking generally only of course: When someone alludes to information that's private without obvious necesity it's often posturing. Even asking only serves to feed the ego, the sense of "specialness." The self-sealing mental trick here is that if either it's an empty claim or a genuine one, it's still lacking in falsifiability: They won't tell you what they won't tell you. Short story: Whenever someoen says something like that, just ignore it. - brenneman 23:01, 28 December 2006 (UTC)