User talk:Gryllida

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Archiving

For whatever use these might be to you, here are some thoughts from my own struggles with archiving in slowdowns. (We had a comparable slowdown in February.)

• I reckon we shouldn't ever have a lead on the main page that's archived. It would seem not cricket to feature an article at that level and then say "but you can't edit it". We did once temporarily lower the number of leads, but it was a bit of a logistical mess.
• At some point, one would think, there must be a lower bound on how many articles we display on the main page DPL. At that point, they act as examples of what we publish, and they are just "the n most recently published articles", regardless of how long a span of time that represents. I guess we should stop archiving at n until we publish replacements for them.
• In practice, I use n=10. Partly to spare myself. It is a nice round number, large enough to demonstrate some variety of what we publish, and large enough to safely provide leads — but I was also concerned that I'd agonize over exactly how low n should be, so I decided to pick a number before we ever got that low, and then if we ever did, I'd have already made the decision so wouldn't have to worry about it in the event.

--Pi zero (talk) 13:43, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

I hadn't even noticed The wub actually has reduced the number of leads. So I suppose we'll get to see whether my "bit of a logistical mess" claim holds up :-). --Pi zero (talk) 16:13, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

Does this imply that I need to edit the mainpage articles-list after each archival? Is there any tool to do that? --Gryllida 11:12, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Fwiw, what I do when archiving an article off the main page is, first put the archive tag on it, then go to the main page (already open in another browser tab) and use the "refresh" button (above DPL, rightmost of icons), causing the archived article to disappear off the list, then go back and protect the article. --Pi zero (talk) 14:24, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for the details; I'll keep it in mind for future archivals. -Gryllida 12:29, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

Florida schools begin to enforce new statewide ban on saggy pants and other revealing attire

EPR didn't sight the passed revision. I've sighted it manually. --Pi zero (talk) 00:12, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks Pi zero, the gadget seems to have froze this time. Gryllida 06:14, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

Hey Gryllida! Thanks for reviewing and passing the article so quickly. Ragettho (talk) 00:32, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

You're very welcome. Gryllida 06:14, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

Scientists sequence small genome of a pest: spider mite

Science reporting is tricky, after all; language log likes to ridicule mainstream media's worst blunders on science. At any rate, I invite you to take a look at the edit history, which (as I remarked in my review comments) is broken up into small edits to allow detailed explanations in the edit summaries. Interesting story. --Pi zero (talk) 03:21, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

The "distance from source" (sentence structure) concept is interesting. Thank you for your time and attention with the edits, and for the review. -Gryllida 03:35, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Windows 8 beta: 'refresh' option to re-install, keep user settings

Hi. I rated it not ready on review; my review comments. I could wish I'd been able to get to it sooner. --Pi zero (talk) 04:06, 7 January 2012 (UTC)