Fixng double redirects (was: Re: [WikiEN-l] acronym sweep needed)

[Chris Jenkinson]

Steve Bennett wrote:
> On 2/8/06, SPUI <drspui at gmail.com> wrote:
>> How is it tedious and painful? You look at the "what links here" list,
>> search the page for (redirect), and edit all of 10 pages.
> 
> This was as efficient as I could get it:
> 
> 1. Click what links here.
> 2. Choose a double redirect.
> 3. Click link to open in new tab
> 4. Click edit
> 5. Right click > Mozex > Edit text area
> 6. Search for "cockerel" (most of them were that)
> 7. Replace with [[Rooster|cockerel]]
> 8. Save/close
> 9. Click edit box
> 10. Paste edit summary
> 11. Save
> 12. Close tab
> 13. Go to step 2.
> 
> Tedious. Especially when computers were designed to do this sort of
> thing for us, not the other way around. Some people thrive on this
> sort of menial task - not me.
> 
> And I suspect a lot of users would be doing this without mozex, would
> retype the edit summary each time, and wouldn't think of opening the
> links in new tabs each time. Even more painful!
> 
> Stev
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See this email I sent about this back in July 2005:
  --> http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2005-July/026119.html

Chris

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