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Kind of interesting

if only because we're explicitly mentioned. [1] I've saved a screenshot of it if anybody wants to see it after they purge it. — User:ACupOfCoffee@ 06:35, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

All Articles Page

For the first time, I clicked on the articles link on the Main Page, and the text that was displayed was

I stared at the page for a few minutes, certain that this seemingly random collection of words was vandalism before I realized that they were names of mostly obscure articles.

So, I'm wondering if there's a better way to present this page. I understand that the object of the page is to divide up the articles into sections of the alphabet, but what if the page instead displayed (for example)

$ to K
L to R
S to o
p to y

(with appropriate links, of course)

I'm just thinking that if this page was confusing to me, it must be very confusing for newcomers to the Wiki. The above reformatting (or something like it) would make a lot more sense to the uninitiated, I think. Thanks! Trey56 15:21, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

I like the idea, though maybe it could say "$ to Ki", to be more accurate. Trelawney

It can't hurt to suggest that to the developers as an enhancement for future versions: http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org. — User:ACupOfCoffee@ 17:51, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Oh—is this an immutable part of the software? Trey56 18:17, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Well, nothing's immutable. In fact, anyone who wants to can suggest changes to the source file. I personally, however, don't see this as a pressing need at this time. — It's dot com 18:27, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

I see; thanks for your reply. Trey56 18:30, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

If it's worth anything, that confused me as well, the first time I looked at it. Salty^Talk! 20:45, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

The thing is, that page is automagically generated. It just happened, that, at the time, Keytar was the 1000th page, alphabetically (I think it's paged by the 1000, anyway... rough count gives around that number). Sure, it's possible to make it "$ to Ki", etc, but look at it, it'd need to make it something like "$ to Ki", "Ki to Strongbadia", "Strongbadia's to pom pom", "pom pom ( to z" or something like that, just because of how it happened to split that time – not really any help at all. What you'd have to do is get rid of the fixed-size pages, and just page by the first letter of the name or something similar, but good luck getting someone to actually bother to code it – on a large wiki like Wikipedia that would result in massive pages (have you seen Wikipedia:Special:Allpages?) so the people who code MediaWiki are unlikely to want to code this as standard. We could probably add it ourselves separately, but (1) we have stopped making any changes until we get 1.6 working and (B) even after that, as It's dot com said, it's not really a pressing need – even if it's a little confusing at first it shouldn't take too long to work out, and Special:Allpages isn't a particularly useful page here anyway (in my opinion). --phlip ^T_C 13:28, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

I'm not particularly attached to having that articles link on the Main Page. Joey added it a while back, and seeing as that page isn't particularly useful to first-timers or regular users in its present unmodified state, I move that we remove it. -- Tom 16:43, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Page views

Deleting and then restoring pages seems to remove their page views... is there any way to fix that? - Joshua 12:51, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

You mean like on technology, the "This page has been accessed 7 times" thing? I don't know of anything, and I don't really think it's that important... --phlip ^T_C 13:28, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

For one, you'd have to know what the number was before it was deleted in order to be able to reset it. The original figure is gone from the database. — It's dot com 16:07, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

A google cache I found dated May 5, 2006 06:41:10 GMT gives "This page has been accessed 38,417 times." -- Tom 16:32, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Episode V: The DOS strikes back!

About an hour ago, I had huge problems going to both here and the Fanstuff wiki. Nothing would load. Was that just my broken compy, or did it happen to the rest of you? — Seriously ^(Talk) 21:07, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

You're not alone. It was here too. Were we upgrading or anything? --DorianGray

Routine maintenance. -- Tom 21:36, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Anyone here a member of wikipedia as well?

If yes, go to Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2006 May 13, and scroll down to the userbox "THIS USER'S HEAD ASPLODE." Some guy, is planning to delete it, so if you can, go there and say, keep.

Nikolce Kocovski 23:53, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

This vote? The debate for that template has already finished, and the result was keep. -- Tom 00:01, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

It's too bad there's not a picture of Vector Strong Bad in that userbox. — It's dot com 00:31, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Replacing the logo

Are we replacing the logo? Because here on User:Soapergem/Legal it says that we are. Is this true?--H*bad 03:43, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

No it doesn't. Read closer. It says "If you intend..." Keyword IF. --Soapergem • • 03:46, 22 May 2006 (UTC)