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
. See also the April archives of this list
under "Server-side backlink redirects".
-- Tim Starling.
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