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removing BBV from cases where the bot could not predict presence of the prefix; usually for things we don't actually cover
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:::Also, I think people are wrongly thinking it's "bad" that newbies might have to click on a story name to see where, specifically, the story came from. '''That's good'''. That means we're keeping people here a little bit longer. We want that. The greater our pageviews, the more we improve a number of popularity metrics. And, yanno, we're not forcing people to go on some kinda treasure hunt here. We're just adding one click to look at an infobox. I'd argue that on many of these prefixes, they were having to click '''anyway''' in order to decode the prefix. So really, we're just swapping the click target, not actually adding a click. We may even be decreasing click throughs in some instances, since people might be curious what PHS means, but will probably not think twice about clicking on [[COM]] (or [[COMIC]]). | :::Also, I think people are wrongly thinking it's "bad" that newbies might have to click on a story name to see where, specifically, the story came from. '''That's good'''. That means we're keeping people here a little bit longer. We want that. The greater our pageviews, the more we improve a number of popularity metrics. And, yanno, we're not forcing people to go on some kinda treasure hunt here. We're just adding one click to look at an infobox. I'd argue that on many of these prefixes, they were having to click '''anyway''' in order to decode the prefix. So really, we're just swapping the click target, not actually adding a click. We may even be decreasing click throughs in some instances, since people might be curious what PHS means, but will probably not think twice about clicking on [[COM]] (or [[COMIC]]). | ||
:::To answer Tybort above, [[GAME]] will probably be supplanted by [[GAME]], and we'll probably need to invent something like [[HOMEVID]] for the stuff now prefixed with [[RP]] and [[BBV]], as well as the ''Meanwhile in the TARDIS'' and ''Night and the Doctor'' stuff. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}}{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}}16:18: Thu 23 Aug 2012 </span> | :::To answer Tybort above, [[GAME]] will probably be supplanted by [[GAME]], and we'll probably need to invent something like [[HOMEVID]] for the stuff now prefixed with [[RP]] and [[BBV Productions|BBV]], as well as the ''Meanwhile in the TARDIS'' and ''Night and the Doctor'' stuff. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}}{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}}16:18: Thu 23 Aug 2012 </span> | ||
::::Okay, I've kicked the tires on [[User:Eladkse|Eladkse]]'s template-with-semantics notion and I think it needs to be made clear that such a notion depends on a ''lot'' of work on my part. I'd have to tag every single story page with a little bit of code. And just adding it with a bot isn't going to be enough. I'd have to integrate it in such a way that it was likely that people would remember to add it to new pages. Maybe, for instance, I'd co-opt the {{{series}}} variable that exists in all infoboxes. | ::::Okay, I've kicked the tires on [[User:Eladkse|Eladkse]]'s template-with-semantics notion and I think it needs to be made clear that such a notion depends on a ''lot'' of work on my part. I'd have to tag every single story page with a little bit of code. And just adding it with a bot isn't going to be enough. I'd have to integrate it in such a way that it was likely that people would remember to add it to new pages. Maybe, for instance, I'd co-opt the {{{series}}} variable that exists in all infoboxes. | ||
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::Tardis1963's point though is somewhat valid, there should be a limit on how long a prefix is, just from a typing stand point, as holding shift and typing more than 5 or so letters does become tiresome. | ::Tardis1963's point though is somewhat valid, there should be a limit on how long a prefix is, just from a typing stand point, as holding shift and typing more than 5 or so letters does become tiresome. | ||
::One group of stories that hasn't been mentioned too much is [[BBV]] and [[Reeltime Pictures]]' straight-to-video contributions. I initially thought that [[VHS]] would be a fitting prefix for them, if it weren't for ''[[Dæmos Rising]]'' which went straight to DVD. Though [[HOMEVID]] (put forward by CzechOut up-thread) could work, even if it is 7 letters. Tybort's and Tardis1963's suggestion of [[VID]] might be a good alternative. | ::One group of stories that hasn't been mentioned too much is [[BBV Productions|BBV]] and [[Reeltime Pictures]]' straight-to-video contributions. I initially thought that [[VHS]] would be a fitting prefix for them, if it weren't for ''[[Dæmos Rising]]'' which went straight to DVD. Though [[HOMEVID]] (put forward by CzechOut up-thread) could work, even if it is 7 letters. Tybort's and Tardis1963's suggestion of [[VID]] might be a good alternative. | ||
::Would [[VID]] or whatever be used for ''[[Meanwhile in the TARDIS]]'' and ''[[Night and the Doctor]]''? | ::Would [[VID]] or whatever be used for ''[[Meanwhile in the TARDIS]]'' and ''[[Night and the Doctor]]''? | ||