Wiktionary:Votes/2006-08/Redirects

Discussion moved from Wiktionary:Beer parlour/2006/August#Redirects.

Redirects

I've not gotten much feedback on the auto-JS-redirection thing. Is it working for everyone these days? Last time that I got no feedback, it was because functionality was not working for all users (except myself) for over a month.

If this is working, and people think that this code is not "brittle," then perhaps it is time to consider mass-deleting the broken case-variant redirects. --Connel MacKenzie 03:43, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

• Support deletion of borked case-variant redirects:

1. --Connel MacKenzie 03:43, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
2. — Hippietrail 08:19, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
3. Kill 'm all. — Vildricianus 10:49, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
4. Nuke 'em. This was never a good way to handle these, and we've got better mechanisms now. —scs 13:10, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
5. What we have now is a better solution if not the final one and even if editing changed capitalization is still a problem that needs to be addressed. DAVilla 17:42, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

• Oppose deletion of redirects:

• Comments on deletions:
  • Which "broken redirects" are we talking about? Those from upper-case forms of "ordinary" (no proper-noun sense) words to their lower-case equivalents, e.g. Upper to upper? —scs 15:12, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
    • Everything listed in Special:BorkedDeridects, was what I was planning on. That way, I don't have to write *any* code, I just use the pywikipediabot feature. ($ python redirect.py broken) --Connel MacKenzie 07:16, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
    • Sorry, I read the below section, and forgot what this was about. Looking at the XML dump, I intend to cull the list of redirects that point to a case-variant. So for example, rome and The would get deleted by this. --Connel MacKenzie 07:29, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
      • Thanks for the clarification. —scs 13:10, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

• Comments on redirect feature:
• Um, like, what is it? "auto-JS-redirection"? Robert Ullmann 13:02, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

  Go to http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/buenos_Aires. You (should) get autoredirected to Buenos Aires. If you don't, either your browser doesn't have JavaScript enabled, or the feature is bugging. — Vildricianus 14:39, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

  The auto JavaScript redirection automatically redirects browsers from a redlink entry to a bluelink equivalent with different capitalisation, as in the example Vildricianus gave above. // Pathoschild (_editor / ^talk) 14:51, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

  The feature is bugging for me. I'm not clear on the technobabble, since it's out of my areas of expertise. --EncycloPetey 01:26, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

• [Further discussion of auto-redirect feature ("I've encountered a small problem trying to add a new entry with capitalisation different", begun by Pathoschild) moved to Wiktionary:Grease pit#automatic case-variant redirects. —scs 13:40, 16 August 2006 (UTC)]

From the last XML dump of 8/5/2006:

>s q=0 s x="" f  s x=$o(^wikir(x)) q:x=""  s id=$o(^(x,0)),n=^wiki2(id,"name") i $$lc^wiki(n)=$$lc^wiki(x) s q=q+1

gives q=63,193 redirects to be zapped. --Connel MacKenzie 07:36, 16 August 2006 (UTC)