On 29/12/06, Ilmari Karonen <nospam(a)vyznev.net> wrote:
Simetrical wrote:
> On 12/29/06, Rob Church <robchur(a)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.