Hello,
We are planning to move the article "11th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica" to "Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition". As there are some odd 15000 articles linking to it, could this cause any problems?
Cheers,
Ruud
"Rudy Koot" r.koot@students.uu.nl wrote in message news:44184DEC.7020908@students.uu.nl...
We are planning to move the article "11th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica" to "Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition". As there are some odd 15000 articles linking to it, could this cause any problems?
Probably not.
Those links are not automatically altered: the software creates a REDIRECT where the old article was pointing at the new article. It is then your job, assuming you are the "mover", to go through the list of links to that REDIRECT and update them.
Assuming you are talking about en.wikipedia.org, I can heartily recommend AutoWikiBrowser for such a job, which can be found at [[WP:AWB]].
HTH HAND
Phil Boswell wrote:
"Rudy Koot" r.koot@students.uu.nl wrote in message news:44184DEC.7020908@students.uu.nl...
We are planning to move the article "11th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica" to "Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition". As there are some odd 15000 articles linking to it, could this cause any problems?
Probably not.
Those links are not automatically altered: the software creates a REDIRECT where the old article was pointing at the new article. It is then your job, assuming you are the "mover", to go through the list of links to that REDIRECT and update them.
Assuming you are talking about en.wikipedia.org, I can heartily recommend AutoWikiBrowser for such a job, which can be found at [[WP:AWB]].
HTH HAND
A bot could do this much more easily.
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