Is there an extension that will reveal a list of broken links, bad links, links to non-existent pages, etc?
Does anyone know of a "cool" {{Bad link}} template - I've seen one on a wiki somewhere but can't remember where.
Thanks. And if you read this when I wrote it, get out and get with your friends!
On Dec 31, 2007 10:20 PM, Steve VanSlyck s.vanslyck@spamcop.net wrote:
Is there an extension that will reveal a list of broken links, bad links, links to non-existent pages, etc?
Does anyone know of a "cool" {{Bad link}} template - I've seen one on a wiki somewhere but can't remember where.
Thanks. And if you read this when I wrote it, get out and get with your friends!
Do you mean broken internal links or broken external links? (Don't worry, it's 12:01 here.)
For internal links, I guess for an extension it would have to be links to internal pages that don't exist.
For external links, a template. I recall seeing one that simply displayed a "Bad Link" message with a nice graphic. A user who came across a page with a bad external link, could simply add {{Bad link}} at the appropriate place and next time someone knowledgeable wandered by they could repair the link.
Emufarmers Sangly wrote:
On Dec 31, 2007 10:20 PM, Steve VanSlyck s.vanslyck@spamcop.net wrote:
Is there an extension that will reveal a list of broken links, bad links, links to non-existent pages, etc?
Does anyone know of a "cool" {{Bad link}} template - I've seen one on a wiki somewhere but can't remember where.
Thanks. And if you read this when I wrote it, get out and get with your friends!
Do you mean broken internal links or broken external links? (Don't worry, it's 12:01 here.)
For internal links, there's Special:Wantedpages, which orders the results for nonexistant pages by the number of links.
For a template, you can just make your own (or base it off the one you saw, if you happen to remember where it was). Wikipedia uses a template that just adds a bit of superscript and a category < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Dead_link%3E, but they're not big on huge, flashy templates for indicating problems.
If you want to have an actual list of broken external links, there is a Python Wikipedia Bot script for that exact purpose < http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Weblinkchecker.py%3E.
On Jan 1, 2008 12:17 PM, Steve VanSlyck s.vanslyck@spamcop.net wrote:
For internal links, I guess for an extension it would have to be links to internal pages that don't exist.
For external links, a template. I recall seeing one that simply displayed a "Bad Link" message with a nice graphic. A user who came across a page with a bad external link, could simply add {{Bad link}} at the appropriate place and next time someone knowledgeable wandered by they could repair the link.
Emufarmers Sangly wrote:
On Dec 31, 2007 10:20 PM, Steve VanSlyck s.vanslyck@spamcop.net wrote:
Is there an extension that will reveal a list of broken links, bad links, links to non-existent pages, etc?
Does anyone know of a "cool" {{Bad link}} template - I've seen one on a wiki somewhere but can't remember where.
Thanks. And if you read this when I wrote it, get out and get with your friends!
Do you mean broken internal links or broken external links? (Don't
worry,
it's 12:01 here.)
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