[Wikipedia-l] "Wanted pages" fix

Imran Ghory ImranG at btinternet.com
Tue Jul 9 09:28:51 UTC 2002


On 8 Jul 2002, at 13:03, lcrocker at nupedia.com wrote:

> One of the things I found was that the present query for Wanted pages
> counts only the distinct pages with a broken link to the wanted page,
> even if that page has two or more broken links to the same title.  It
> seems to me that's not important--I'd just as soon have it count all
> links so I know how many to fix, and that's just as good a metric of
> "wantedness", I think.  And it's not very different in any case--
> multiple broken links to the same title on one page are rare.

Incidently does the system count broken links from #redirects once 
or does it count all the links to the page with the #redirect on it ?

Imran

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