We'd be much better off if we add the needed
functionality on the
serverside, I believe.
Perhaps, but I believe in the motto "if you want something done, do it
yourself." Who's going to write this server-side code -- you're obviously
not interested.
If you could describe exactly what the problem is that
you wrote the
code to solve, that would be very helpful.
I'm not saying "don't ever run this"; I'm saying that we should
think
about the consequences of this.
I really think we should err on the side of not worrying so much about
"fixing" links, if the redirects go to the right place. Redirects don't
affect the functionality for the user, and because of that, there should
be a degree of intransigence about adding complexity/running bots to fix
a problem that isn't much of a problem.
I think you basically understand why I wrote it - to fix links after a page
move. There's a few hundred national parks articles that have been created
with a bot/template -- they form the bulk of the work. I understand your
point of view -- no, it doesn't really matter when there are working
redirects. I'm just a perfectionist, that's all.
Please understand that this bot will be make much less impact on RC than if
I did it by hand. Like I said, I did about 100 of them manually. I was able
to get them out quite quickly, doing them in batches of 15 or so I
absolutely swamped RC for about 20 minutes. No-one complained about that.
Please send me the code.
Done, and I sent a copy to Lee as well.
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