On 10/18/07, 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.
It would be really nice if redirects were replaced by a system of aliases, which were part of the metadata to the article.
In particular, if you could do regular expressions, like:
Fr[ée]deri(que|c) (Fran[çc]ois)? (Leblanc|Gonzale[zs]) (Jr(.)?)?
Obviously you'd want to place restrictions to cut down the number of matches, but this would save a lot of tedious redirect creating.
In fact the expression language would only need one feature: multiple options for parts of a word, preferably nested. So the above example could actually be expressed:
Fr[é|e]deri[que|c] [Fran[ç|c]ois|] [Leblanc|Gonzale[z|s]] [Jr[.|]]
Not so abusable. Very useful. Any takers to implement it? :)
Steve