[WikiEN-l] Tool announcement: Alternative names redirect

[Gwern Branwen]

On 2007.10.18 17:08:03 +0100, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske at googlemail.com> scribbled 26 lines:
> On 10/18/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 18/10/2007, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Someone raised the possibility of a bot that would go through a
> > > category (of biographies), read all articles, find '''bold''' parts,
> > > check if these exist as a page, and create a redirect if not.
> > > IMHO that should be a semi-automated process, not a fully automated
> > > one (creating redirects, that is). So, here's the tool:
> > > http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/name_redirects.php
> >
> > Bug report! Put in Category:2007 deaths and you get the following:
> >
> > Luigi_Filippo_D'Amico
> >     Luigi Filippo D'Amico : #REDIRECT [[Luigi Filippo D'Amico]] [do
> > it!] (12 pages link here)
> >
> > Note: it's trying to redirect the article to itself. And when you hit
> > "do it!", it'll happily offer to wipe out the article with the
> > self-redirect ...
>
> Thanks, should be fixed now. Should there be a MediaWiki function that
> prevents one from saving a #REDIRECT to the same topic? ;-)
>
> Magnus

It would be nice, but there a lot more pressing issues to be working on. This problem really needs to just be handed over to someone with OCD or Asberger's equipped with Pywikipedia's selflink.py.

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gwern
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