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NeXT level miscategorisation
Posted: 24 Aug 2023, 15:49
by Muirium
I’m wary about breaking the wiki, so I'll note this here in the hopes a wiki veteran can do the deed. We need to talk about NeXT…
This page is surprisingly hard to find
Search the wiki for NeXT, you get no hits:
wiki/index.php?search=NeXT&title=Specia ... fulltext=1
Browse by manufacturer:
wiki/Category:NeXT_keyboards
The only keyboard listed there is NeXT's later ADB-speaking rubberdome board:
wiki/NeXT_ADB
That well-illustrated article doesn't mention the previous Alps based NeXT keyboard at all. So how did I even find this page with all the pictures of the original keyboard then?
Well… this page is very sneakily linked to from the top of the NeXT_keyboards category page, where it is mislabelled as simply NeXT the manufacturer! --Muirium (talk) 15:43, 24 August 2023 (CEST)
I propose renaming the NeXT page to "NeXT non-ADB" keyboard, adding it to the NeXT category, and linking to it from the "NeXT ADB" keyboard article. I've no idea why none of these show up in search, though.
Re: NeXT level miscategorisation
Posted: 24 Aug 2023, 17:23
by Findecanor
Done.
I suspect that a search for "NeXT" could have got trapped because it was on a list of common words ... but I dunno.
I added links to a non-existed "NeXT Computer" page, that should be about the company. Apparently it had the official name "Next Computer, Inc" at some time, and that two-word title should not get trapped by the search engine either.
Re: NeXT level miscategorisation
Posted: 24 Aug 2023, 17:45
by Muirium
Thanks.
To my perplexed amusement, the search result for "
NeXT" reports the contradictory statements:
There is a page named "NeXT" on this wiki.
There were no results matching the query.
While a search for "
Next" gets no hits at all. This will be my punishment for forgetting the EssEntiAl capitals the NeXT time I go to look.
Wikipedia's article on
NeXT Computer is good to point to in the implied manufacturer page. For our interest, they only made 2 keyboards. That and the Steve Jobs / exile from Apple link. Anything else can be read over there.
Re: NeXT level miscategorisation
Posted: 24 Aug 2023, 17:52
by Findecanor
Yeah, I added a stub for "NeXT Computer" only for completeness' sake, because it is convention to have them.
I suppose it will take a while before the links stop being red (?) ...
Re: NeXT level miscategorisation
Posted: 24 Aug 2023, 18:09
by Muirium
Now you've done the hard work, I can join in the
story time. Cheers!