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 Go 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.