Since many of the special: pages have been disabled for quite a while now, some people want updates on those info.
I'm wondering if it is okay to run a query to list pages with links to themselves. On the English Wikipedia's Wikipedia:Database_queries, there is a sample query to get the list, and it says it takes 24 seconds. On it's talk page, one person says not to use that query.
Should I not use that?
Also, I am wondering if I can somehow get a list of lonely pages updated.
I'm speaking of Japanese wikipedia, by the way.
Thanks in advance for your advice.
Tomos
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On Nov 21, 2003, at 13:14, Tomos at Wikipedia wrote:
Since many of the special: pages have been disabled for quite a while now, some people want updates on those info.
If you slip "magic=yes" into the URL, it'll temporarily disable miser mode for that page load. For the pages that cache an old copy, it'll update the cached copy. Please use in moderation.
eg, http://.....org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Lonelypages&magic=yes
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
In message 80CAA890-1C6B-11D8-8ABC-000A95DAA284@pobox.com, Brion Vibber brion-e+AXbWqSrlAAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org writes
On Nov 21, 2003, at 13:14, Tomos at Wikipedia wrote:
Since many of the special: pages have been disabled for quite a while now, some people want updates on those info.
If you slip "magic=yes" into the URL, it'll temporarily disable miser mode for that page load. For the pages that cache an old copy, it'll update the cached copy. Please use in moderation.
eg, http://.....org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Lonelypages&magic=yes
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
I tried that on cy.wikipedia and got "You have requested a special page that is not recognized by the wiki software." :(
Arwel Parry wrote:
eg, http://.....org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Lonelypages&magic=yes
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
I tried that on cy.wikipedia and got "You have requested a special page that is not recognized by the wiki software." :(
Also on the dutch wiki
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciaal:Lonelypages&magic=yes
On Nov 22, 2003, at 15:51, Walter Vermeir wrote:
Arwel Parry wrote:
eg, http://.....org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Lonelypages&magic=yes
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
I tried that on cy.wikipedia and got "You have requested a special page that is not recognized by the wiki software." :(
Also on the dutch wiki
Yeah, that doesn't work. See my example URL above.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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