User talk:HBC Archive Indexerbot

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  • Try to figure out how to split up huge indices to avoid timeouts
    • Multiple pages, transcluded onto one?
    • Probably need to have multiple actual pages - otherwise it's just unmanagable. Will probably need new target syntax. split=alpha, segments=A-C,D-G,H-L,etc?
  • Address scalability of cache (filename hashing or something)
  • Make cache more efficient by caching compiled objects (%index hash bits)
  • Allow indexing of talk page if opt-in is on a different page (like in a transcluded header)
  • Handle month/year archives (maybe an option to follow links on the main page to find the archives?)
    • Partially possible by specifying individual single-page masks

I know the formatting sucks, and the sorting isn't working, I will fix that when I have time. If you have a suggestion for the formatting go ahead and make it. As for the sorting, I thought I had it working but I will have to fiddle some more later. HighInBC (Need help? Ask me) 16:52, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Formatting Idea

How about a table for formatting? Without taking the time to edit every single entry, I did a couple of rows from the WWII index at User:Krellis/Sandbox. You'll note I added a feature request there, too - I'm not sure if it's really possible, but it would be neat to try to include an estimate of the number of replies in a given section. One way to try to approximate it would be the number of times "UTC" appears in the section - not perfect, by any means, but it might work. Or you could go by changes in indentation level. As long as you indicate somewhere that it's approximate, that probably wouldn't matter too much. Of course, I have no idea how difficult it would be to actually implement :) The table with alternating row backgrounds still might be at least somewhat of an improvement from the current style, since it will keep all of the links together in a row and help prevent items from running together. —Krellis 23:33, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

I was hoping that someone would suggest a better format, I will implement that. As for how many replies, this is difficult. I suppose I can count the timestamps... I will work on it. HighInBC (Need help? Ask me) 23:36, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

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