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RecentChanges Junkie's Nightmare
   

Recent Changes Junkies Nightmare - n sg.

User who edit too many pages at once and thus create a huge list of changed pages in RecentChanges, which in turn places a heavy burden on RecentChangesJunkies. Also known as RecentChangesDealer.


Honorary titles have been awarded to:

  • MtnViewMark for editings on 10th-Oct-2001
  • unkx80 for forgetting the MinorEdit checkbox on 2nd-Dec-2001
  • KarlKnechtel for his contributions 15th-Jul-2002 to 19th-Jul-2002
  • DieterVerhofstadt for editings on July 18, 2002 and his coldblooded statement on CoffeeMachine afterwards: "You RecentChangesJunkies' nightmares make my day."
  • doulos for indirectly generating the most traffic in edits of Hikaru no Go Junkie 22nd-July-2002 onward --lavalyn
  • SAS For his August 13th renaming of dozens of pages (was there a point to this?) --StormCrow (SAS: It was five pages, not "dozens". And of course there was a point: people refer to the "4-4 point", not the "four four point". And for some reason it's impossible to adjust the page title to "4-4 point" without moving it to 44Point. Perhaps I should have marked all the edits as minor though. (ChessWhiz: Duh. :-))
  • CharlesMatthews for his contributions on 4th-Sept-2002
  • TimBrent for his contributions on January 9,2003
  • ChuckRobbins: for his controversial postings of SlateAndShell books (Jan 30, 2003)

(feel free to add other nightmarish people :o)


--Stefan: (to MtnViewMark) Speech! Speech!


I don't get it. If we're providing what junkies are looking for, then isn't that a good thing, instead of a nightmare? Someone who provides free junk to addicts is an angel, yes?

--Scartol

You may not know that previously, the old Recent Changes format was very disorganised and there was no Minor Edit button then. We the Recent Changes Junkies had a very difficult time trying to keep track where the discussion had taken place, and I myself constantly missed some changed pages.

Kudos to Arno and Morten who redesigned the Recent Changes, but we the users should do our part to keep the Recent Changes tidy, to make life easier to the everyone else. :-)

Obviously, I have not done a good job so far. :-(

--The second Recent Changes Junkies Nightmare

Arno: to Scartol: well, we junkies are looking for quality stuff. If someone just corrects a spelling mistake on a page, we are not really interested in it. Or just adding a link (like you did on PagesForBeginners Jan 4th (the [diff +0] entry)) - see MinorEdit for more info.

Stefan: For me it's not so much that I'm not interested in the minor changes. Everything that happens on SL interests me. It's just that following everything is very time consuming for a junkie if somebody adds a massive amount of stuff. Also there is the fear you'll miss an updated tidbit of information. Hence the nightmare aspect. But you're right, Scartol, that the junks are always grateful to the RecentChangesDealers.

dnerra: May I suggest a cure for RecentChangesJunkies' Nightmares? I think changing the "diff[+n]" format to "diff[+a-b]" should help. Surely a "diff+90-90" is more interesting than "diff+1-1", although they are both displayed as "diff[0]" at the moment. (Of course, that's assuming that this is quick to implement for Arno and Morten -- well I am almost certain it is.)

Jonathan Cano: If we had frame maker style change bars between the current page version and the last that would help the junkies locate the junk. Alas, this is probably difficult to implement.

Arno: dnerra, it is not as simple as it seems. Currently, the diff is run separately from saving, the information not being available while saving. I will change the format of saves to use diffs some day (currently pages are saved full-text, even if you change only one letter). When changed RecentChanges could be made to look like that.

to Jonathan: how do frame maker change bars look like? I have never seen them.

KarlKnechtel: Hee hee... that's what I get for jumping right into things I guess. :) I've tried to explain a few things at an easier level, if only to test my own understanding of them. The initial apparant simplicity of Go has this way of stimulating creative juices... I've also fixed some pages by escaping links, so the UndefinedPages wouldn't list things like "652x132mm" or "sic".


unkx80: Thank you, KarlKnechtel. The large demand has to be matched with enough supplies, so... =P

KarlKnechtel: I don't really think it's fair to shift the blame onto doulos, lavalyn... if people are just updating that table of who's uploaded what, I think the 'minor edit' checkbox is appropriate - ?


 one day, I want to be on this page as well!


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