2008/12/4 Aryeh Gregor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Gregory Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> With a JS hack I had my tool integrated to the site. The AJAX calls >> went to the toolserver, but as far as the users could see it was >> running on the site. No one cared: It didn't produce useful results >> because of how categories are used, and when I suggested changing >> people just waved their arms at me "just make it walk the tree". > What was the interface like (how noticeable/obtrusive), how long was > it up, and why did it get removed? You're certainly going to need a > critical mass of people who know about it and use it before there will > be any effect. Evidently at least two of us who were drooling for this feature failed to become aware of it ... > And enabling it on all wikis at once would likely > help, too: if Germans get used to using it on dewiki and find it > useful, they'll be more likely to push for it to be made useful on > Commons. oooooooooh. How to hack the Wikimedia social structure. (mind you, I'll believe it's a conclusive solution when flagged revs hit en:wp.) > In the end, all of these objections are really irrelevant to the > technical issues here. The fact of the matter is that category > intersection is widely supported in other major software products (in > the form of tag intersection), it's something that a lot of people > want, and so it would be good if it were in the core software. How > fully various specific communities would want to use it is up to them > -- that some communities might never choose to use a particular > feature doesn't mean that it shouldn't be developed (cf. FlaggedRevs, > etc.). Indeed. Greg, can your thingummy please be switched on again and publicised as such on commons-l, if that's not impossible? - d. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
