2: A feature to change collections of links. Namely suppose you move an article, and want the areas of text that link to this article to instantly reflect the new name. So, I would like to code this in such a way that it will bring up an interface that lets you edit all in one page each reference to this article. Namely, today I was browsing wikipedia and i came accross this: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fizeau-Foucault_Apparatus well, i felt the article was pretty poor, so I did some googling, and it turns out that Fizeau and Focault worked independantly on the projects. Because of this, I felt there was a need to move the article. But looking at "what links here" immediately frustated me because what I propose would make this task of verifying the textual integrity of the articles after you change the name of an article much MUCH easier. And im not really sure right now if its a good idae to go a step further and have an instantaneously-change-all-textual-links-to-new-name-without-this-human-verification-process-that-I -just-laid-out.

I have suggested exactly that, and I offered to code it myself. It's still coming, I got distracted with other things. You can see the general idea at http://starling.f2g.net/move.html . See also the April archives of this list under "Server-side backlink redirects".

-- Tim Starling.

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