Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Red Link Recovery/Archive 2

Bot for WikiProjects?
I can't seem to find an answer for this, but is there a bot that can be run against a category that would then list redlinks? I'd like to be able to transclude a page into our Project page of redlinks so editors can go in and either unlink or create stubs....plange 07:24, 1 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Am I right in thinking that you want lists of all red-links in pages listed in a given category? I'm sure I can manage this if you want, name your category :)  - TB 22:57, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Integration
I've identified this project as a candidate for material to be analyzed by Wikipedia Integration methodology. Please feel welcome to offer suggestions and feedback. WP:ʃ Cwolfsheep 16:22, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Award needed?
Does the red link recovery need a bardstar or similar to award to it's most active bluelinkers ? I've always given out janitorial medals in the past, but I guess they're not quite appropriate here. Any suggestions ? - TB 08:35, 5 August 2006 (UTC)


 * If you can get enough support from the WikiProject, I'd recommend an image of a star that's half blue, half red, with an arrow pointing to the blue side. --Gray Porpoise 19:20, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Is it easy to find who is the most active blulinker? -- Magioladitis 10:09, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Anyone know of a project that ...
The Red Link Recovery project is, as a side effect of its normally activities, generating lists of articles that don't yet exist, but that have names very similar to articles that do already exist, for example Christmas pudding and Christmas Pudding). I can't help but think that it would be useful to create the missing articles in stub form and check that links to the pre-existing one aren't in fact intended for the newly created stub.  The problem is that I've no idea who might be interested in carrying out such a task;  does this fall within the scope of any existing cleanup projects? - TB 20:04, 30 August 2006 (UTC)


 * The problem you are describing sounds similar to what Redirect is trying to do. --Everchanging02 05:39, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Project directory
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 14:18, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

To do list
The work on the to Do list table has all been completed. The table should either be updated with new work, or removed. raining_girl 20:35, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Yes it would be nice for someone to update the to do list, what is needed to do this, a DB Dump and is there a bot to look for certain occurrances of red links? Djanvk 07:36, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Topbanana generates a new list every 6-10 months according to this post on his talk page. ~ BigrTex 14:53, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

comment on Red link
I left the following comment on Wikipedia_talk:Red_link; please continue discussion there. --C S (Talk) 21:06, 28 December 2006 (UTC) I think it would be useful to have somewhere in the lead, bold text that states do not arbitrarily remove red links just because the article doesn't exist. The reason being that several times I've run across editors just removing clearly important red links. In the most recent case, I pointed the editor toward this page, but then he cited part 2 of "dealing with existing red links" which says to remove broken links. Apparently, "broken" link can be easily confused with "red" link. --Chan-Ho (Talk) 21:04, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 19:30, 30 December 2006 (UTC)