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Latest comment: 16 years ago by TreasuryTag in topic Other processes
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Anything that recieves a check mark indicating it has been done will remain on this page for a few days, then be archived. SynergeticMaggot 18:57, 22 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

 Done vote -> comment

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Analytics (influance of a voter by time of vote)

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  • Analytics... how influential is a given voter? If a voter votes in a lot of questions, are they an opinion shaper or a follower? Some analysis of WHEN a voter voted will tell you. If they're th efirst or second oppose and the question goes down, they may have either been astute at predicting, or even started, the trend. to see if they started it, you'd have to analyse following comments to see if they referenced this voter. But just being on the right side EARLY a lot of the time suggests something about that voter... more thought needed but that's the idea. ++Lar: t/c 22:31, 30 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

 Fixed Clear search engine results list when another AfD page loaded

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See title --mboverload@ 07:53, 31 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

Order

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Be able to order the list of AfDs by their number of votes or delete votes, By column mboverload@ 07:57, 31 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

Ability to sort chronologically

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It would be nice to be able to sort the list chronologically as well - could the timestamp from the nominator be parsed for this? --AbsolutDan (talk) 06:57, 6 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

Please do note that this will be done, but will not be done untill after v1.0.0. —— Eagle (ask me for help) 19:16, 20 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

Tab names

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Instead of the tab names being static and general, it would be nice if they were specific and dynamic - ie when viewing an AfD, the tab currently "subject of the vote page" should be "Article" or similar, and change if needed down the road when other types of voting are added to the program --AbsolutDan (talk) 07:27, 6 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

 Fixed Save display preferences

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Minor request: When columns are resized, in the list view, the setting is not saved after exiting --AbsolutDan (talk) 14:31, 6 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

Comming soon. —— Eagle (ask me for help) 19:23, 20 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

Correctness checking and civility

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Here's two ideas to help make sure that all AfDs are correct, and all interested parties are informed:

  • Automatic AfD check - automatically check that the author has been notified, and the link in the article is correct. These are often not done, which is horribly bad form in my opinion. This should be done automatically on selecting to view an AfD. Often failure to do this can show up a bad faith AfD.
  • Notify author and editors option - for automatically adding "article flagged for AfD" on user talk pages, as this is often forgotten.

LinaMishima 15:08, 10 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

This actually doesnt really need to be done. In some cases when the article is old, the author/creator isnt even watching it anymore. Also, I believe there is a bot request for this. SynergeticMaggot 01:47, 11 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
A fair ammount of complaints that I've heard about have been down to the author not getting informed, and it is generally polite to do so, anyways. I would never suggest automatic notification of the author, but a means on request to drop a message on the author's talk page should be trivial. Non-essential when compared to the research tools, but certainly nice LinaMishima 04:43, 11 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
I am working on something like this... it will be in as soon as I get done dealing with the latest rash of bugs. —— Eagle (ask me for help) 05:53, 14 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

Research Tools

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The big problem with AfDs isn't voting - it's being informed enough to vote wisely. The following should help with that:

  • Link for google search on the subject - allow the search query to be changed to allow it to be narrowed.
    • Done in current version... all you have to do is change the search term in the text box next to the search button.
  • Articles linking to this one link - often reveals a lot about an article
  • SwetsWise and other scientific journal listings search on subject - vital for science articles
    • Will probably need means for users to authenticate via Athens
  • For articles about websites:
    • Google links search - if a website is heavily linked to, it's probably important
    • Alexa search - has to be with a warning that any figure about 100,000 is not accurate
  • List of all URLs within the article - and means to check them out
  • List of all books referenced - and means to check them out on multiple systems - not just Amazon!
  • List of all scientific papers referenced and means to look them up

Hopefully with all the above, we will have a very effective means to encourage people to check an article's subject before voting, and hence significantly improve the AfD process. LinaMishima 15:08, 10 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

I am hard at work at most of these. Fell free to nag me folks :) —— Eagle (ask me for help) 06:02, 14 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Wonderful, thanks! :) I'll have to go sign up to use this, then ;) LinaMishima 14:18, 14 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

Multiple requests

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  • Back (navigation) button in case you get lost on pages. I realize this can be done by clicking the item selection tab and then refresh, but it would be nice to have a back button anyway.
  • Alexa for search engine. Must have. Changed mind.
  • Under the vote tab, we might need a "Nuetral" option. And I doubt anyone will need the option to double redirect, so you might want to drop that one.
  • Also under vote tab, there are also some cases where there should be a "Userfy" and "Transwiki" option.
  • WV also needs to indent the "Comment" option.
  • An option button might also need to be created to allow you to have the choice to not watch the AfD after you have "voted". So 100 AfD's are not on your watchlist.
Also, a question. When can we expect this to be used for the other xfD's and RfA? :) I hope all this helps to make a better WV. SynergeticMaggot 01:59, 11 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
One more thing for the future. It would be a great feature if you could manage to delist an AfD, and relist it somewhere else. Example. When someone lists a disambig on AfD, it shouldnt be there, but should in fact be listed in WP:MfD. So if WV could delist it, then relist it on its proper xfD, that would be some awesome prog. SynergeticMaggot 02:01, 11 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
      • For your first request, a quick way of doing this is just to right click on a blank part of the page and select back. As back is often at the top of this context-sensitive menu, it's a quick process. Martinp23 14:07, 18 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

Item selection screen

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I'd prefer it if the column headings were spaced so you can see what the titles are, and they didn't snap back to the default when refresh is clicked. Martinp23 11:54, 15 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

 Fixed Vote stance

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Would it be possible to make WV add options which the user types into the "Vote stance" box, so if i was to type Delete and Protect, the program would add it to the combo box for future use? Martinp23 22:09, 19 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

Will be implemented in future Martinp23 22:09, 19 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

List sorting

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Currently, the list is always sorted alphabetically, by subpagename. Could we get it to sort by the other variables -- number of votes, number of speedy votes, number of keep votes, etc? Or other such sorting options. Luna Santin 05:59, 21 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

i'm for this as well. JoeSmack Talk(p-review!) 21:22, 23 October 2006 (UTC)Reply
Hear, hear! Martinp23 21:38, 23 October 2006 (UTC)Reply

 Done Pop up search engine

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It would be nice if in addition to getting the hit list, we could also double click a given search engine and it would pop it up in a window. Sometimes its not the number but what the hits are that are important.--Crossmr 03:32, 22 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

Hi - this function is already in WDM - but in tabs. If you double click a search listing in the hitcounter table, the search page is opened in the "External Browser" tab below. I hope this makes sense - and answers your feature request. If not, feel free to post back here. Martinp23 15:23, 22 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

Remove whitespace

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Can the program remove whitespace from the end of submissions, to prevent formatting problems with signatures? Martinp23 21:55, 11 September 2006 (UTC)Reply

Porting to Unix like environments

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Hi! I saw that you release exe files on your homepage. Is it possible to have your application's source code? I would very much like to port this application to GNU/Linux, or other operating systems. I am not a great programmer, so I cannot promise a deadline, though. :( Still, is it possible? Also, I would like to have the license some what compatible with GNU/GPL, but that is just a request. --æn↓þæµß¶-ŧ-¢ 18:01, 10 January 2007 (UTC)Reply

Other processes

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Hi; just stumbled across this and it looks fun! When do you think support for other processes (RfA!) will be added? Cheers, -- TreasuryTagtalkcontribs 22:55, 29 February 2008 (UTC)Reply