Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/Early/cleanup/double redirects/20051009

The redirect sensor hard at work.

This project is sponsored by the Computer help desk. There is also a study about the double redirect problem; community involvement is encouraged.

This is a list of double redirects as of the Oct 9, 2005 database dump. Thank you for showing an interest in helping; please read this before continuing. To contribute follow one of the links below and sign your name in a section. Each page is split into 25 sections and each section has 20 redirects.

This cleanup project has a few bugs:

1. Some of the article titles and links have been mangled. If you want to you can try to research the proper article name but it is easier just to skip them. If you run into these you can simply ignore them; please be sure to remove these links when you have completed the section you are working on and are ready to remove the entire section. Example: puerto Aysén. This has been a long running problem that has proven difficult to solve.

Tips on fixing double-redirects

From Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax

• If the link goes to a redirect page with a blue link, which when clicked gives a page that says at the top "Redirected from (somepage)", then it is a double-redirect. A double redirect is when page A redirects to page B, which then redirects to page C. The Wikipedia only properly supports one level of redirects. To fix this, page A (the first redirect page) should be edited to point to page C (the final page), instead of another redirect (page B) - and then please delete it from the list.
• Otherwise, if the link on the redirect page works correctly (i.e. shows the article, without saying "Redirected from (somepage)"), and is syntaxed correctly, then it has already been fixed - you can just ignore it.
• To help others find this project, consider signing your edits with something like: Fixed double redirect; [[Wikipedia:Computer help desk/cleanup/double redirects/20051009|You can help!]].

Please read this before continuing. To contribute follow one of the links below and sign your name in a section. Each page is split into 25 sections and each section has 20 articles. Further instructions are in each individual section. Thanks again for your consideration.

Over 7,800 double redirects identified; overall 100% complete

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Participants

Feel free to sign your name here and leave a note if you worked on this project.

1. Thanks to everyone who helps cleanup these double redirects. Triddle 18:23, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
2. I thought Triddle had died! :-) Always glad to help ya. --Woohookitty 10:43, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
3. Phew. There's a lot of these little buggers around. --BorgHunter (talk) 00:42, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
4. --Kbdank71 15:15, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
5. Mwah. · Katefan0^(scribble) 17:54, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
6. I'm baaaaack. Man these things just keep coming up don't they...--Bash 21:08, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
   1. Yes they sure do. I've taken it upon myself to enter a feature request regarding this, see http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3747 Triddle 15:54, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
7. Damn this takes a lot of work. Ian Moody 12:55, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
8. Did they fix the name-mangling that special characters used to cause, or did they just start throwing those out? Either way, it's made it easier to do. BonsaiViking 20:56, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
   1. No actually, I removed all of the red links. *big smile* I went through all of the sections and just took them out. --Woohookitty 10:37, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
   2. I appreciate your enthusiasm, but on the previous dump I was able to find valid pages for about half the mangled links with a little search time. It's probably an encoding issue, Unicode vs. ASCII or something like that, that could be fixed in the script. BonsaiViking 14:03, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
   3. Actually I think the script is doing things properly (outputting UTF-8); the problem comes in moving the generated cleanup project pages to the Wikipedia. The method I'm using to do the transfer is dropping the UTF-8 and I haven't found a good alternative yet. I hope to get that one solved soon. Triddle 16:50, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
9. Happy to help!
   --GraemeMcRae^talk 20:59, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
10. 500 down, probably should add my name to the list--Rayc 01:22, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
11. I figure I can't get into too much newbie trouble while I stick to this. TECannon 18:19, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
12. I'm much too busy to help with this, but my friend User:RussBot is doing a heck of a job on these redirects!  ;-) --Russ Blau (talk) 20:18, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
13. Doing the double-redirect dance again - play it all night long... GTBacchus 23:39, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
14. Doo-doo-dee! - Pureblade | ^☼ 00:46, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
15. Just completed my first 200 edits in about 1 hour 20 minutes... is that fast? --mdd4696 02:26, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
16. Wow this allows for some serious procrastination -- Zarboki 16:46, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
17. Agreed... but cutting and pasting makes for future carpel tunnel syndrome -- Dyslexic agnostic 19:53, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
18. Mozilla Firefox has tabbed browser capabilites. Cut&Paste and cruise through these in no time.—Gaff ^ταλκ 22:57, 22 October 2005 (UTC)