On Sun 15 Apr 2012, Kake kake@earth.li wrote:
As far as I can tell from looking at the code, yes, this is what it does - it finds you everything that isn't in Category: Pub. I can't think of a reason to want to do this either, but if Nick Burch (who coded this feature) is still around, perhaps he could give us an example of a use case.
On Mon 16 Apr 2012, Janet McKnight janetmck@chiark.greenend.org.uk wrote:
That would be great. :-)
I should point out that I don't know if Nick _is_ still around! If not, perhaps Dom is still in touch with him (or indeed can remember discussion of this feature, though it's 6 years since it was implemented).
- everything which is missing an X, for every value of X (at the moment
I can find everything without a postcode but not everything without a web address -- seems a bit arbitrary unless there's something I'm missing about the way the database works?)
It seems a bit arbitrary to me too, and in fact you can munge the URL to do what you want, e.g. http://oxford.openguides.org/wiki/?action=show_missing_metadata&metadata...
so it's just a restriction of the interface. I don't know if that was on purpose.
- everything in category/locale X which is missing a Y, e.g.
- everything in Locale:Donnington which is missing grid refs
- everything in Locale:Rose_Hill which is missing a photo
- everything in Category:Pubs which is missing a website
- everything in Category:Cafes which is missing opening hours
Yes, these would be useful, as would be visualising the results on a map instead of as a list.
Do you think you could have a go at raising a ticket for these enhancements? bob recently did some much-needed triage on the bug database, which has made me much more likely to actually look at the reps there. If you don't already have a Trac account, there are instructions for registering here: http://dev.openguides.org/wiki/AboutThisTracInstall
Kake