Wikipedia:PHP script feature requests
This is a list of feature requests for the new Wikipedia PHP script.
Looking at mis-spelled search requests for 'Circumsision', 'Circumsicion', 'Circumsission' and 'Lamberghini', we should probably use something like Soundex or Metaphone to search for a sound-alike article if a literal search fails. Note that recent versions of PHP have a metaphone() function built in.
See http://www.zend.com/manual/function.metaphone.php for more details.
-- The Anome
If several changes have been made to an article and I go to the History list, I would like to have a way to see all the diffs at once, the net change to the article since I last saw it. With the old software, I'd have clicked on the "diff" link corresponding to the first change, which would have displayed the difference between the original and the current version. The new software (I think?) forces me to click on all "diffs" separately to get a sense of the net changes. AxelBoldt
- I second this. The old software was annoying because it only let you see cumulative diffs. The new software is annoying because it only lets you see diffs of individual changes. There should be a way of seeing both types of diff. --Zundark, 2002 Jan 27
The feature that allows you to click on the title of a page to do a search on it should be removed. It is causing a large number of failed searches, and so pointlessly annoying a lot of people. This feature was added to the old software in response to requests to have some way of finding pages that link to the current article (although this isn't what it actually did), which is something the new software can do anyway. --Zundark, 2002 Jan 27