Enwiki uses a fairly extensive system of marking up redirects:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Redirects_from_alternative_names
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Redirects_from_alternative_spellings
(etc)
Not all redirects by any means are there, but it would be a good way
of identifying "pre-cleared" ones for import.
Andrew.
On 19 June 2015 at 08:53, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Ricordisamoa, 19/06/2015 09:07:
I've seen countless inaccurate aliases 'inferred' from redirects by bots.
And I've seen countless simple searches failing due to lack of obvious
redirects/aliases.
Are there reasons to believe that redirects are in majority bad aliases?
(Surely there can be some obvious filtering.) Are there other good sources
for aliases? (Perhaps we can mass-import alternate names from VIAF etc.)
Nemo
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