Before properly answering this question, it's
important to know how many
links we're talking about. If it's 5000, the fallout is probably
manageable; but if it's in the hundreds of thousands on any project (most
likely enwiki) there will be renting of garments and gnashing of teeth.
All those changes show up on people's watchlists, after all.
Please also ensure that if you're changing the URL, it's not just a http
--> https swap, but that the new URL is tested to verify it lands on a real
page. There are no doubt plenty of bad links in amongst all those URLs -
even government websites rearrange themselves periodically - and replacing
a bad link with a more secure bad link is not really helpful.
Risker/Anne
On 13 January 2016 at 13:32, Max Semenik <maxsem.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Fix them with a bot, for example AWB
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser>.
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 9:09 AM, Chris Adams <chris(a)improbable.org> wrote:
I've been working with a number of colleagues
getting ready to turn HTTPS
on by default for various
loc.gov domains. This has been fairly
successful
and we're working through the old legacy apps
now.
When that work completes, we'll have somewhere around half a million
links
which differ only in the URL scheme. What would
be the best way to
rewrite
all of those URLs? I'd like to reduce the
window during which users
transit
from HTTPS -> HTTP -> HTTPS.
If anyone's curious, I've been collecting the links for a few dozen wikis
in a somewhat oversized Git repo:
https://github.com/acdha/lc-wikipedia-links
The first site which has completely migrated is the much smaller World
Digital Library which has just under four thousand links:
https://gist.github.com/acdha/f785b22b356a9842439e
Thanks,
Chris
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