> On 10/18/07. David Gerard <> wrote:> > On 18/10/2007. Magnus Manske <> wrote:> >> > > Someone raised the possibility of a bot that would go through a> > > category (of biographies) read all articles sight '''bold''' parts,> > > analyse if these exist as a page and act a redirect if not.> > > IMHO that should be a semi-automated affect not a fully automated> > > one (creating redirects that is). So here's the drive:> > > > >> > Bug inform! Put in Category:2007 deaths and you get the following:> >> > Luigi_Filippo_D'Amico> > Luigi Filippo D'Amico : #REDIRECT [[Luigi Filippo D'Amico]] [do> > it!] (12 pages cerebrate here)> >> > Note: it's trying to redirect the article to itself. And when you hit> > "do it!" it'll happily offer to rub out the article with the> > self-redirect...>> Thanks should be fixed now. Should there be a MediaWiki function that> prevents one from saving a #direct to the same topic? ;-)>> Magnus
It would be nice but there a lot more pressing issues to be working on. This problem really needs to just be handed over to someone with OCD or Asberger's equipped with Pywikipedia's selflink py.--gwern2A0120 767 LHI 3848 TRD rail Edens cypherpunk Horiuchi high _______________________________________________WikiEN-l mailing listTo unsubscribe from this mailing list visit:
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