[WikiEN-l] Human dignity

[Steve Bennett]

On 7/18/06, ScottL <scott at mu.org> wrote:
>   Without claiming that we should or should not have such a entry in
> those articles, I have for a long time been interested in looking
> through the DB dump for redirects to pages that do not contain the term
> being redirected to them, or something close.  Its the "or something
> close" and the fact that some times this is probably "ok" that makes it
> hard to just do this.  In any event I have frequently come across very
> bad redirects, some of them POV some of them I think people did just to
> avoid having a red link. Is there any sort of redirect auditing being
> done?  I can't say I know of a good way to go about it efficiently but
> its is worth thinking about.

A useful tool would be some javascript that shows you every redirect
that links to each page that you visit, so any bad ones might jump out
at you.

Steve