Talk:Rosetta Code/List authors of task descriptions/Full list

Anomalies in Task Lists

Firstly, the Go entry has a bug - my regular expression is picking up 'Category:Requesting_Content' as a draft task (thereby increasing Short Circuit's count by 1) which is easily fixed.

However, whilst trying to reconcile the overall Task Lists with the list of tasks completed for Go, I noticed the following anomalies:

1. For some unknown reason, the [Reflection/List methods] task (authored by Outis) is showing up in both the 'full' and 'draft' task lists (its page shows it as a 'draft'). The Perl 6 entry has somehow detected the duplication (and shows it as 'full') but the Go entry hasn't (it's easy to fix). I don't know whether the Phix entry has detected it or not.

2. There are two 'putative' tasks, [FiveNum] and [Mutex], which aren't showing up in either list because their pages don't actually flag them as tasks. It appears that they definitely should be (there are plenty of implementations) but I thought I'd wait to see what Thundergnat has to say about it before changing them to tasks myself.

3. There are some entries in the tasks completed for individual languages which aren't actually tasks but adjuncts to them. Examples include [N-queens problem/dlx go], [Robots/Phix] and [Perl/LWP]. I don't know why this happens or whether there is anything we can do about it but it's worth bearing in mind if you're trying to reconcile the overall lists with those for your language.

--PureFox (talk) 15:15, 11 January 2020 (UTC)

I fixed the Fivenum Rosetta Code task,   it looks like an oversight when it was created.     -- Gerard Schildberger (talk) 15:54, 11 January 2020 (UTC)

(As for item # 1, above, Reflection/List methods):   it appears that it might have been   copied   and then possible modified,   and then the older version wasn't deleted.   I ain't touching it,   that's a job for some administrator.     -- Gerard Schildberger (talk) 15:54, 11 January 2020 (UTC)

Yeah, I don't think there's any doubt that Fivenum should be a (draft) task - I should have spotted the oversight when I added the Kotlin entry. Not sure about Mutex though. From the discussion page, it looks like Short Circuit originally intended it to be an 'encyclopedia' entry but, despite this, implementations were added for 28 languages and are showing up as 'tasks completed' for those languages. My vote would be to regularize matters by converting it to a task.

As you say Reflection/List methods is definitely one for Thundergnat to sort out if indeed it can be sorted out at this rather late stage. --PureFox (talk) 16:11, 11 January 2020 (UTC)

For what it is worth, [FiveNum] was marked as a draft task until September 12 2019 when the tasks original author removed the draft (and task) markup. My suspicion is (s)he was confused about what the markup should be. Ah well, fixed now, Thanks Gerard. It appears that [Mutex] never had correct draft/task markup even though Short Circuit was an early contributor to that page. Task markup added. Perl 6 has also detected [Reflection/List methods] as both a draft and a task. At this point I just selected one and went with that. (I believe, though I am not positive, that the dual nature is due to some of the Reflection/ entries being full tasks and that one being a draft so it shows up in both categories.) It's the only one like that, it never bothered me enough to invest much time figuring it out and, until very recently, Perl 6 was the only language that had made any attempt at solving this task. I'm going to go ahead and promote it out of draft (It's got many entries and no controversy). We'll see if that clears up the issue.

As far as the sub pages: [N-queens problem/dlx go], [Robots/Phix], etc. As long as there is a link on the main task page to the sub page, they should be counted correctly; at least that has been my experience. --Thundergnat (talk) 00:17, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

It looks like promoting [Reflection/List methods] to a full task has solved the problem as it's no longer showing up on the draft task list. With both [FiveNum] and [Mutex] fixed too, all should now be well :) --PureFox (talk) 00:54, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

I was going to look into it when I got some spare time.   I had thought there might be   two   versions (separate entries), one was a draft task,   the other (slightly spelled different perhaps?) a (full) task,   and I was going to compare the complete contents of one versus the other.   I don't know what I would've found, if anything.     -- Gerard Schildberger (talk) 06:37, 12 January 2020 (UTC)