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.
That would be great. :-) Can I also give examples of the sorts of things I want to use the "missing metadata" search for, in case it's ever possible to add the necessary functionality?
Simple search:
* 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?)
Two-faceted search (if that's what you call it):
* 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
That's about it -- I could come up with more complicated searches & probably use cases for them, but the above are the sorts of search that I find myself wanting to do *all the time*, when I have a small amount of time & I want to be able to create a clearly-defined mini-project eg "Let's see if I can get everything in Donnington grid-referenced" or "Let's see if I can google for websites/addresses/etc for all the cafes in the centre" or "I'm going to be in Locale X on Tuesday with half an hour to spare, which things still need photos?"
I should add that I know this sort of search isn't trivial & I am no good at writing them! So I don't mean to whinge about what's there, just to say that this is what I'd like if possible. Also, I would quite like a pony, kthx. :-)
Jx