Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/Early/Smack 20050724


 * This text was taken from Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Disambiguation

--Smack (talk) 03:18, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Fixing links to disambigs is mind-numbing. In my experience, after half an hour of fixing links, my head starts to swim and I have to sit and vegetate for a while.  If I interrupt my progress periodically to fix pages that obviously have other problems, I can fix about forty pages in that time.  To me, that's not satisfactory.  It would be nice to have a bot, similar to the one used for the Wiki Syntax project.  This bot would do three things:
 * Identify every page that links to a disambig page (using Category:Disambiguation and Special:Whatlinkshere)
 * Search through each of these pages for every link to a disambig
 * Generate a link to an edit window in which every one of these links has been suitably marked, maybe like this: foo.


 * Actually, I was partly mistaken. I'd forgotten that there were two different ways of doing things for Wiki Syntax.
 * For the part of the project that dealt with redirects, a script generated an edit screen with the edit suggested (like this). This is easier to work with, but it may be too resource-intensive to do make this work right for pages that (unlike redirects) are liable to be edited at any time for other purposes.
 * For the rest of the project, a script just listed problems in a page (like thus). If option 1 doesn't work out, this would be the way to go.  However, I would very much like to have all of the problems in any given page listed in the same place, so that we don't have to edit it five times to fix five bad links.
 * --Smack (talk) 15:05, 24 July 2005 (UTC)


 * Sorry for the inaction but I've been busy. I'm not sure when I'll be able to find the time for this one. Triddle 03:25, August 5, 2005 (UTC)