We were looking for a special page that listed pages with broken links, is there currently one available somewhere? I've created one and didn't want to add a duplicate extension or functionalty to the extensions.
Thanks, Travis
On 1/18/07, Travis Derouin travis@wikihow.com wrote:
We were looking for a special page that listed pages with broken links, is there currently one available somewhere? I've created one and didn't want to add a duplicate extension or functionalty to the extensions.
Well, you could go to Special:Wantedpages and work backwards from there, I suppose, off the top of my head.
Ok. Cool.
That page seems to pick up pages in the user and talk namespaces as well. Is there much value in adding a special page to the list of extensions that lists main namespace pages that have links to articles that don't exist in the main namespace? I know we'll use it, but we have a different flow of creating pages and dealing with broken links than Wikipedia.
Travis
On 1/18/07, Simetrical Simetrical+wikitech@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/18/07, Travis Derouin travis@wikihow.com wrote:
We were looking for a special page that listed pages with broken links, is there currently one available somewhere? I've created one and didn't want to add a duplicate extension or functionalty to the extensions.
Well, you could go to Special:Wantedpages and work backwards from there, I suppose, off the top of my head.
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On 18/01/07, Travis Derouin travis@wikihow.com wrote:
That page seems to pick up pages in the user and talk namespaces as well. Is there much value in adding a special page to the list of extensions that lists main namespace pages that have links to articles that don't exist in the main namespace? I know we'll use it, but we have a different flow of creating pages and dealing with broken links than Wikipedia.
The four questions I usually ask myself before committing an extension are:
1. Is it well written, secure (to my knowledge), etc? 2. Do I want to release the code for this? 3. Is someone else going to find it useful? 4. Has it been done better in the repo?
I like to think that #1 is always a "yes", and #2 is usually a "yes" as well, so generally what I go for is satisfying #3 and #4.
In your case, I think you'd be satisfying both of those; I don't see why someone else wouldn't find it useful, and I don't believe there's anything like it in the repository to date.
Rob Church
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On 18/01/07, Travis Derouin
travis@wikihow.com wrote:
That page seems to pick up pages in the user and talk namespaces as well. Is there much value in adding a special page to the list of extensions that lists main namespace pages that have links to articles that don't exist in the main namespace? I know we'll use it, but we have a different flow of creating pages and dealing with broken links than Wikipedia.
The four questions I usually ask myself before committing an extension
are:
- Is it well written, secure (to my knowledge), etc?
- Do I want to release the code for this?
- Is someone else going to find it useful?
- Has it been done better in the repo?
I like to think that #1 is always a "yes", and #2 is usually a "yes" as well, so generally what I go for is satisfying #3 and #4.
In your case, I think you'd be satisfying both of those; I don't see why someone else wouldn't find it useful, and I don't believe there's anything like it in the repository to date.
If it easy to add a namespace selector to the top of the page (like on Special:Allpages) and a tick-box to specify whether to only show broken links that start and end in this namespace, or all broken links within the namespace, then it will be of a lot more general use.
If it's not so easy and the code gets added to the MW codebase without it, I'd suggest logging this as an enhancement.
- Mark Clements (HappyDog)
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