Toan
The morning sounds like a good idea, but I can't find where to put by timezone on the subscription page -- GWO
Well, sending it out at 2 AM servertime pretty much ensures everyone from the west coast of the U.S. to the middle of Europe will receive it sometime in the morning. --LMS
Also, some more formatting should probably be done. :-indented text could be rendered in plain text as well. Articles using bold for headings look a bit weird in text form as well. --Pinkunicorn
The two bugs mentioned by me in the paragraph above are still there. Also, it seems to be time to start adding more articles to the queue or we'll soon run out of stuff to send. --Pinkunicorn
Pink, good idea to keep adding articles, and we really appreciate your pointing out these bugs. It would be nice if we could expect somebody to fix them as soon as they're spotted. But...the paid employees who are working on the project have many other projects they're working on. The volunteers (like Magnus) have only so many hours in the day. :-) At this point I celebrate the fact that there is "running code" at all. :-) Eventually, almost all the more obvious problems will be fixed. Maybe you yourself will be able to help. I think all the code (open source, of course) is now running on Nupedia's CVS system, but don't quote me on that. --Larry
If you can point me to the code for the article-a-day script I can have a look at it. I assume it's in Perl. No promises, but a look won't hurt. --Pinkunicorn
I'll ask Toan to put up the code somewhere (preferably, the CVS). --Larry
Addition: international characters seem to be stripped. --Pinkunicorn
Is it just me or does anyone else think that adding the casualty list from the terrorist incident to the article-a-day queue is inappropriate? --Robert Merkel
I dunno. If I was personally affected by the tragedy, maybe I wouldn't appreciate yet more reminders of it crowding my inbox. Then again, maybe I would appreciate the opportunity to add an orbituary so that people researching this in the future can get a sense of the human tragedy. I'm no psychologist, I don't know. It seemed at least worth querying before it starts hitting people inboxes. -- Robert Merkel