Am Dienstag, den 29.05.2007, 21:03 +1000 schrieb John Beckett: > Sebastian Menge wrote: > >> Put the list of 1500 tip titles in one file, one title per > >> line. Then edit that file to clean up the titles. Then run a > >> script to rename each tip to match the cleaned-up title. > > > > One idea was that the editing can be done on the wiki. Just > > edit the Errornames page :-) > > Neat, but please give explicit directions if that's what you > want. There's not much point in my editing the titles if you > meanwhile are planning to use some other scheme.
Forget that, most problems came from slashes which could not be handled by wikipediafs. I fixed that. Other special chars get replaced by "__HASH__" or "__BRACKET__" and the like. Ugly, I know. > Also, we (actually, you, because it looks like you're doing all > the work:), need to resolve the issue of exactly what is allowed > in a title, and we should agree on some general guidelines. > > I think the Wikipedia style of prominently saying something like > "this page should be titled xxx but due to technical > restrictions we can't do that" is too ponderous (although > reasonable in their context). > > Maybe we could have something more informal (if scriptable). > For example: tip 249 in your errornames might be: > > Title = C - Quickly insert precompiler directives > [I'm not very happy with this wording] > But first line of the tip might say: > C/C++: Quickly insert #if 0 - #endif around block of code > I decided for myself that I dont wont to do editorial work on the tips or comments. So some pages will look ugly and have to be repaired manually later. But its a wiki: I hope that will evolve naturally. > > stable regexes for 1500 pages are not easy to do > > I'm glad it's you and not me! It's hardly reasonable to come up As you perhaps guessed its a bit of fun for me :-) I'm learning python, I deepen my regex understanding etc. Its a nice study :-) See my next post for details ... S.
