On 2/8/06, SPUI drspui@gmail.com wrote:
How is it tedious and painful? You look at the "what links here" list, search the page for (redirect), and edit all of 10 pages.
This was as efficient as I could get it:
1. Click what links here. 2. Choose a double redirect. 3. Click link to open in new tab 4. Click edit 5. Right click > Mozex > Edit text area 6. Search for "cockerel" (most of them were that) 7. Replace with [[Rooster|cockerel]] 8. Save/close 9. Click edit box 10. Paste edit summary 11. Save 12. Close tab 13. Go to step 2.
Tedious. Especially when computers were designed to do this sort of thing for us, not the other way around. Some people thrive on this sort of menial task - not me.
And I suspect a lot of users would be doing this without mozex, would retype the edit summary each time, and wouldn't think of opening the links in new tabs each time. Even more painful!
Stev
On 2/8/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/8/06, SPUI drspui@gmail.com wrote:
How is it tedious and painful? You look at the "what links here" list, search the page for (redirect), and edit all of 10 pages.
This was as efficient as I could get it:
- Click what links here.
- Choose a double redirect.
- Click link to open in new tab
- Click edit
- Right click > Mozex > Edit text area
- Search for "cockerel" (most of them were that)
- Replace with [[Rooster|cockerel]]
- Save/close
- Click edit box
- Paste edit summary
- Save
- Close tab
- Go to step 2.
Tedious. Especially when computers were designed to do this sort of thing for us, not the other way around. Some people thrive on this sort of menial task - not me.
And I suspect a lot of users would be doing this without mozex, would retype the edit summary each time, and wouldn't think of opening the links in new tabs each time. Even more painful!
Quicker with, dare I say it, Lupin's pop-ups. I'm not sure they can do more than one a page, though.
-- Sam
Dammit, I need to look at some more of these tools, and they should be more publicised for new editors. Mozex is great, and I've signed up to use AWB, but it looks like I have to wait on that one.
Steve
On 2/8/06, Sam Korn smoddy@gmail.com wrote:
Quicker with, dare I say it, Lupin's pop-ups. I'm not sure they can do more than one a page, though.
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Steve Bennett wrote:
On 2/8/06, SPUI drspui@gmail.com wrote:
How is it tedious and painful? You look at the "what links here" list, search the page for (redirect), and edit all of 10 pages.
This was as efficient as I could get it:
- Click what links here.
- Choose a double redirect.
- Click link to open in new tab
- Click edit
- Right click > Mozex > Edit text area
- Search for "cockerel" (most of them were that)
- Replace with [[Rooster|cockerel]]
- Save/close
- Click edit box
- Paste edit summary
- Save
- Close tab
- Go to step 2.
Tedious. Especially when computers were designed to do this sort of thing for us, not the other way around. Some people thrive on this sort of menial task - not me.
And I suspect a lot of users would be doing this without mozex, would retype the edit summary each time, and wouldn't think of opening the links in new tabs each time. Even more painful!
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See this email I sent about this back in July 2005: --> http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2005-July/026119.html
Chris
Steve Bennett wrote:
On 2/8/06, SPUI drspui@gmail.com wrote:
How is it tedious and painful? You look at the "what links here" list, search the page for (redirect), and edit all of 10 pages.
This was as efficient as I could get it:
- Click what links here.
- Choose a double redirect.
- Click link to open in new tab
- Click edit
- Right click > Mozex > Edit text area
- Search for "cockerel" (most of them were that)
- Replace with [[Rooster|cockerel]]
- Save/close
- Click edit box
- Paste edit summary
- Save
- Close tab
- Go to step 2.
Tedious. Especially when computers were designed to do this sort of thing for us, not the other way around. Some people thrive on this sort of menial task - not me.
And I suspect a lot of users would be doing this without mozex, would retype the edit summary each time, and wouldn't think of opening the links in new tabs each time. Even more painful!
What the hell are you doing? You only have to edit each of the ten redirects that formerly redirected to cock (chicken) and change them to #REDIRECT [[rooster]].
On 2/9/06, SPUI drspui@gmail.com wrote:
What the hell are you doing? You only have to edit each of the ten redirects that formerly redirected to cock (chicken) and change them to #REDIRECT [[rooster]].
LOL I never thought of that. Perhaps the "move page" help text could be a little bit clearer. In this case I think there were only a couple - the "ten" figure I referred to was the number of original articles linking to [[cockerel]] (which itself redirected to [[cock (chicken)]] and then to [[rooster]].
Apparently the simple concept of "fixing double redirects" was a little too succinct for me.
Steve