On Dec 3, 2003, at 04:07, Brion Vibber wrote:
I'm running a quick script to take out the bad brokenlinks entries (and clear linkscc). Obviously some problems in rebuildlinks remain...
'remove-brokenlinks.php' in maintenance subdirectory in unstable cvs.
Output (I forgot to add headers saying which database is which, but you can pretty much tell): http://download.wikipedia.org/archives/brokenlinks.out.gz
Altogether 13528 bad brokenlinks items turned up. The script didn't check which were or weren't also in the links table...
A link that's missing from the links table is an annoyance, but doesn't harm the appearance of links and will be safely re-added when the page is next saved. A bogus link in brokenlinks causes false edit links and generally don't seem to go away when the page is saved, so they're more of a problem.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)