On 2007.10.18 17:08:03 +0100, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com scribbled 26 lines:
On 10/18/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 18/10/2007, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@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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