[Wikipedia-l] Redirect detector

Brion VIBBER brion at pobox.com
Tue Oct 15 20:03:00 UTC 2002


Magnus Manske wrote:
> Brion VIBBER wrote:
>> They should be separately configurable; I would vote for #3 if it's kept.
>>
>> Oh -- another thing; I notice the stub link marker doesn't do its 
>> magic in Recentchanges. I suppose it would add a teensy bit to the db 
>> lookup, but it might be nice.
> 
> That's why I didn't put it into the function for existing links 
> (makeKnownLink) but rather in the "rendering" part. I suppose the 
> database would be stressed too hard if many people would use it.
> 
> I patched Recent Changes at the test site so it displays stubs, without 
> additional database queries. That should work.

Cool!

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)




More information about the Wikipedia-l mailing list