On 7/18/06, ScottL <scott(a)mu.org> wrote:
Without claiming that we should or should not have
such a entry in
those articles, I have for a long time been interested in looking
through the DB dump for redirects to pages that do not contain the term
being redirected to them, or something close. Its the "or something
close" and the fact that some times this is probably "ok" that makes it
hard to just do this. In any event I have frequently come across very
bad redirects, some of them POV some of them I think people did just to
avoid having a red link. Is there any sort of redirect auditing being
done? I can't say I know of a good way to go about it efficiently but
its is worth thinking about.
A useful tool would be some javascript that shows you every redirect
that links to each page that you visit, so any bad ones might jump out
at you.
Steve