Simetrical hett schreven:
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Tim Starling
<tstarling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On the page move form, a checkbox is shown,
checked by default, labelled
"update any redirects which point to the original title".
Is the typical user going to understand what this means and be able to
make an intelligent decision about whether to use it? Is there any
good reason this shouldn't always be done, with no option to skip it?
For some pages on some projects it is common to archive the page by
moving "page X" to "page X/Archive" and recreate "page X"
from the
resulting redirect. But pre-existing redirects on "page X" should still
point to "page X" after the move. Therefore it is indeed useful to have
it optionally.
Also, what's the maximum number of redirects
we're expecting here, and
how long does each one take to fix? It would be nice if this could be
done synchronously rather than on the job queue, so you wouldn't have
to wait for possibly days for everything to be updated.
It's clearly an extreme
and dubious example, but the highest number of
redirects I ever came upon was on ksh.wikipedia. The article
<http://ksh.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6lle%2C_Rejierungsbezirk> for
example has 16619 redirects. On wikis with bigger communities who can
take corrective actions against single dominant users the numbers most
likely will be much lower ;-) I think there are few realistic cases
where numbers of more than perhaps 20 redirects are really needed.
Marcus Buck
Slomox