Wikipedia:Phase II feature requests/Report features

This page is obsolete! It is an archive of old feature requests that were still active on 2002 July 20, when we moved from Phase II to Phase III of the software. Many requests were implemented then, while others became obsolete due to being rejected by the community. See Wikipedia:Feature requests for current requests.

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Report features

• Automatically-generated NewTopics page
  • Still considering this, but not for version 0.92. --CliffordAdams

• Count and publicly display (somewhere) two or three different numbers of Wikipedia pages that are longer than various particulars lengths (to give a more realistic idea of how many actual pages are on the wiki, as opposed to redirection pages, tiny stubs, etc.).
  • A good idea. The only quibble is that it requires opening every page to generate the report, but it shouldn't take any longer than the current search function.
  • If wikipedia articles are stored in flat files, you could just approximate the length based on the file size, right?

• How's about an automatically generated Wikipedia Contributors page that lists contributors and the number of pages they created or changed? --SoniC
  • Unfortunately, not all contributors use a username or have a single login. Also, not all of the requested information is kept permanently. --CliffordAdams

• It would be great to have a feature that would identify all orphaned pages. There's a small but growing problem of our having many useful pages that are not linked-to or underlinked-to. It would be great if we could list all pages to which there are no links, or only one link. --Larry Sanger

• I would like a page that is a top list of the most frequently linked-to non-existant page, more or less the opposite. LinusTolke

• How about a feature that lists all places where the current page is linked from?

• Provide a batch job that searches for and lists all links along with the page the link is contained in so that we can look for duplicate/slightly different versions of the same link and fix them. Please make this a weekly batch job so that it does not take too much time.

• Is it possible to invent something to sort lists alphabetically? Take a look at pages like Actresses and you know why this would be helpful...

• Plagiarism-bot. A bot that goes through Wikipedia pages on a regular basis, does Google searches, and flags pages that it suspects might be plagiarized.

• Spell check batch job for newly created articles once a week with a link at the end of the article to the incorrectly spelled words. Even better would be one that worked as the "preview" button, before saving, and that marked somehow the suspicious words.

• Let's have contributors of a given Wikipedia page listed either in the header or in the footer. IP's are skipped of course and if there are more than, say, 10 contributors make a link to a special subpage "Contributors".Kpjas
  • If people wish to be listed, can't they simply include their name at the end of the text?

• Provide a way to search for all the changes made by one user in Wikipedia. For example, if I contributed to numerous pages over a long period of time, then 2 years later, I would need a way to find out whether someone else added to the subject I once touched.

See also : Wikipedia:Phase II feature requests