Steve Bennett wrote:
On 7/18/06, ScottL scott@mu.org wrote:
Without claiming that we should or should not have such a entry in those articles, I have for a long time been interested in looking through the DB dump for redirects to pages that do not contain the term being redirected to them, or something close. Its the "or something close" and the fact that some times this is probably "ok" that makes it hard to just do this. In any event I have frequently come across very bad redirects, some of them POV some of them I think people did just to avoid having a red link. Is there any sort of redirect auditing being done? I can't say I know of a good way to go about it efficiently but its is worth thinking about.
A useful tool would be some javascript that shows you every redirect that links to each page that you visit, so any bad ones might jump out at you.
Steve
I like that idea. My initial thought was a off line parsing of the DB Dump for redirects that are not in whole or in part mentioned in the target to the redirect. But I (wildly and with no basis) estimated that probably 50% of those or more would be perfectly acceptable redirects. In such a case there would little hope get getting many editors involved going thorough them looking fr the bad ones.
Your suggestions is much better. There are a number of other nifty javascript things that could be done for the whatlinkshere page as well. *wanders off and ponders tinkering*
SKL