[Wikipedia-l] Stub detector

Fri Sep 27 14:08:33 UTC 2002

Magnus Manske wrote:

> An initial version of "stub detection" is running at Lee's test site. 
> Links to stub articles (less than 500 chars) are shown in green. 
> REDIRECTs are shown as normal links. For example, try
>    http://www.piclab.com/wikitest/wiki.phtml?title=Biology
>
> I suggest to
> * make the minimum size for a "real" article a user option
> * set it to zero as standard
> which means nobody gets this special mark-up, except they choose it in 
> their prefernces. That would avoid confusion, especially among 
> newcomers (blue links? and red ones? and green ones?).
> Also, everybody can decide how large an article has to be at least...
>
> PLEASE, gimme feedback, or I'll implement it as is! (just so the "hate 
> it" can register in time, for once...)
>
> Magnus
>
> P.S.: Same goes for the "Special:Maintenance" page at the same place, 
> while you're at it :-)
>
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Excellent! I like it.

But please make the default setting say 250 chars. This will find the 
most gratuitous stubs, without affecting many real articles.

Neil