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jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
To keep one's website's links fresh, one uses a linkchecker to detect broken links. But how is a linkchecker to check if a wikipedia article exists, given that this returns $ HEAD -H User-Agent: http://*.wikipedia.org/wiki/*%7Csed q 200 OK for any article, non-existent and existent,
This is bug 2585:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2585
As noted there we had problems when originally implementing it, which may or may not be legit or continuing, and we haven't got 'round to reimplementing it.
- -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)