On 29/12/06, Ilmari Karonen nospam@vyznev.net wrote:
Simetrical wrote:
On 12/29/06, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
Could use the job queue for it, although I'm pretty sure there was some previous discussion either on this list or the bug tracker regarding the issue, where the consensus was to let the user do the cleanup.
Why the job queue? Even if you have several dozen redirects, it should surely still be fast enough to do immediately.
I'm sure we have a page with hundreds of redirects pointing to it somewhere on enwiki.
Many. I've fixed them after page moves. Gah...
But I suppose the reasonable solution is to do the fixing immediately if the number of redirects is reasonable (say, less than 200) and otherwise either dump it into the job queue or just flat out refuse to do it.
hah!
Having done hundreds of redirects, I would strongly urge *not* to do it automatically. Semi-auto with a bot, maybe, but in the "hundreds" cases every one needs a human review IME.
- d.