User:CmdrDan/Wikipedia Carbon Footprint: Reducing Carbon Cost via minimizing redirection

Wikipedia Carbon Footprint: Reducing Carbon Cost via minimizing redirection

Super easy ways to reduce CPU cycles

Efficiency can be easy; right?

Write a bot to eliminate redirects.


 * Or is this a fool's errand?
 * Is the cost of the bot > the CPU reduction?

Example: Template:Disambig
Shorter name redirects to longer name: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Disambig&redirect=no
 * 1) REDIRECT Template:Disambiguation

Complete wikitext:
 * 1) REDIRECT Template:Disambiguation

As of this writing (11 July 2021) there are 64,174 pages that contain the shorter string. https://templatecount.toolforge.org/index.php?lang=en&namespace=10&name=Disambig#bottom That's a start.
 * Page views of these 64174 pages

Now what?