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No, no, no, this is extremely wrong!!!!! Why are current events in December? This is January 2003, and we're going to have to keep moving this! This is really wrong-headed, and has not been discussed. -- Zoe
Zoe - sorry for the confusion. I brought this up on Talk:Current events earlier. The idea is to use the archiving of Current events as an opportunity to archive the history, too. This requires moving the Current events to the previous month, and creating a new page for Current events (with the current months current events in it). This month, it doesn't make as much sense...December 2002 gets the history for all of 2002, but so it goes. Next time, January 2003 will only get history for January 2003 and a little of February, and so on. It also went a little clumsily this time...next time I hope it goes better. - RobLa 04:12 Jan 13, 2003 (UTC)
One problem. Look at the hit counter. That is moved as well. --mav
Ugh...good point. Is that a fatal flaw to this method of archiving? -- RobLa 07:34 Jan 14, 2003 (UTC)
I don't see how. The hit counter has a relevence of precisely zero; it's a happy happy fun fun blinkenlights ooh! somebody looked at the page! feature. --Brion 07:48 Jan 14, 2003 (UTC)
Well some people think that the happy happy fun fun blinkenlights ooh! somebody looked at the page! feature is important. Current events is one of our most popular pages and the current count on that page doesn't indicate this at all. --mav
I moved the history back. The hit counter thing was the killer here - we are about to possibly get a lot of press coverage and to have the second most popular page in all Wikiland register only 700 page views is very misleading. For page counters to be useful and/or interesting at all, they all must start at zero on the same day. In the future just say "Events from the current events page" in the edit summary when you create month archives. We need a better way of handling history pages anyway. IMO only the last 100 versions should be displayed (similar to Recent Changes). --mav 12:57 Jan 16, 2003 (UTC)
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