This might be a bug, or I might just be confused.
I noticed that when I put in [[common sense]] on a page, it creates a
link to a page titled "Common sense" (first letter u.c.). However, when
I click on CommonSense and replace it with #REDIRECT [[common sense]],
the *latter* creates a link to a page titled "common sense" (first
letter l.c.).
I would prefer to be able to title the page "common sense", actually.
And I *can*--by using a redirection page (!)--I just can't link to the
"common sense" page by using a [[common sense]] link on a regular page
(because that will point to "Common sense". Another problem is that I
must rework my redirection pages from "[[common sense]]" to "[[Common
sense]]" or else all the old CommonSense links will be broken (because
they will point to "common sense" instead of "Common sense".
What should I do? I'm sure at least ONE person will understand the
above. :-)
Larry
I have an idea about how we can systematically update all the old pages:
(1) Search for "." or "e".
(2) Copy contents of each page in succession
(3) Replace the contents of all 1,300 or so MashedTogether pages with
#REDIRECT [[Mashed Together No More]]. Just BE SURE that you label the
page with the first letter capitalized. I.e., NEVER type: "#REDIRECT
[[link like this]]". Instead, type: "#REDIRECT [[Link like this]]".
(4) Paste copied contents on Mashed Together No More.
Then all we have to do is replace the LINKS to the old pages with links
to the new pages.
What do you think? Shall we start doing this, or will Cliff or someone
be doing something to automate the link conversion process?
Larry
It would be very easy to write a program that would, every week say,
randomly select three bits of text from every Wikipedia page and search
on that text using Google. If there were any results--well, it's hard
to say how the program could tell if there were zero results--this could
be posted somewhere for a human admin to check. That's the general
idea. Of course, it could be tweaked, but I'll bet something like this
could be made to work.
Larry
Someone had posted a copyrighted article into the 'wolf' category.
I deleted it, please see the discussion at 'WolF'.
For now, I just deleted it by removing all the text, but of course
the copyrighted material is still on our server in the revision history.
That will go away after 14 days, as I understand it, but I will also
try to figure out how to make it go away sooner.
I'm not too worried about this for the future. Legally, it isn't likely
to be a huge problem. We just need to instill a very strong social norm
on the wikipedia that copyright violations will not be tolerated.
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