Talk:Main Page
Note: This page is used for discussion about the wiki in general. Resolved items have been moved to the archive page.
Search engine
The search engine sucks. I'm unable to find any article searching by word 'using' even there are a lot of pages containing it (I've searched for the page "Using MEd" btw). And it does not search for words shorter than 4 characters (although I know it's almost impossible to bypass. :/ Seemann 10:35, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
- 'Using' might be on the list of stop-words. Internal SQL word size for indexing is limited to a minimum of 4 characters. --Steve-m 13:32, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
Game links
For the various (big) games there are a variety of dummy articles now, redirecting to the game categories:
- GTA 3, GTA III, Grand Theft Auto III
- GTA VC, GTA Vice City, Vice City
- GTA SA, GTA San Andreas, San Andreas
- GTA 4, GTA IV, Grand Theft Auto IV
The point is to avoid people having to type or copy the complicated category link and override the name every time. Also, should we decide to write proper articles for each game some day, this would make it easier to redirect them to the article instead of the category.
For that reason I started replacing category links for III and VC; SA and IV are still left to do (see Special:WhatLinksHere/Category:GTA SA and Special:WhatLinksHere/Category:GTA 4). All those entries that are not sub-lists of redirect pages still have direct links to game categories and need fixing.
So in case someone is bored or has to edit some of those pages anyway, please fix the game links as well. --Steve-m 16:02, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
Common discussion
I believe that removing old comments is not a good idea. Some ideas/thoughts could be said over and over, and to avoid that it's better to leave the discussion topics easily accessible. In my opinion, it would be smarter to create an archive page, say Talk:Main_Page/Archive, and eventually move the resolved items there. Or, as it is also done on Wikipedia, strike out the title of a resolved item with <s> tag (==<s>Common discussion</s>==). Seemann 18:22, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
- Well, I was under the impression that the two items in question were fully resolved and not at risk to come up again. But you're right, an archive page makes it easier to view old discussion items without having to browse the whole history. --Steve-m 20:45, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
