On 6/15/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Geni does raise a simply stated but important problem. When you think about it, it is much bigger than one would at first imagine. Now, when we rename an aricle we retain a redirect from the old page. How do we extend something of the sort for headings to deal with broken links?
In the sort term the problem can be managed by running searches on database dumps for broken redirects to titles and listing them for fixing.
Long term we would need changes to mediawiki but I'm no programmer and I can't see any way of doing it that isn't database intensive or would require some fundimental changes to the way the software works.