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>gt;, 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>gt;.
On Jan 1, 2008 12:17 PM, Steve VanSlyck <s.vanslyck(a)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(a)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.)