[Wikipedia-l] minor improvements to the system. aggravated.

[Tim Starling]

>2: A feature to change collections of links. Namely suppose you move an 
>article, and want the
>areas of text that link to this article to instantly reflect the new name. 
>So, I would like to
>code this in such a way that it will bring up an interface that lets you 
>edit all in one page each
>reference to this article. Namely, today I was browsing wikipedia and i 
>came accross this:
>http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fizeau-Foucault_Apparatus  well, i felt the 
>article was pretty poor,
>so I did some googling, and it turns out that Fizeau and Focault worked 
>independantly on the
>projects. Because of this, I felt there was a need to move the article. But 
>looking at "what links
>here" immediately frustated me because what I propose would make this task 
>of verifying the
>textual integrity of the articles after you change the name of an article 
>much MUCH easier. And im
>not really sure right now if its a good idae  to go a step further and have 
>an
>instantaneously-change-all-textual-links-to-new-name-without-this-human-verification-process-that-I
>-just-laid-out.

I have suggested exactly that, and I offered to code it myself. It's still 
coming, I got distracted with other things. You can see the general idea at 
http://starling.f2g.net/move.html . See also the April archives of this list 
under "Server-side backlink redirects".

-- Tim Starling.

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