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Cleared 100+ entries on Hyderabad yesterday & today (too slow for 24 hours? ;)). 85% of them link to Hyderabad, India, 10% to Hyderabad, Pakistan and 5% to Hyderabad State. (almost disambiguated all Hyderabad, India entries. Of the unfinished job left, majority would be of Hyderabad, Pakistan with some to Hyderabad State). So, I was wondering if Hyderabad should lead directly to Hyderabad, India with 2 disambiguation links on that page. Any views? --- Gurubrahma 07:44, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
It looks like the database dump started on 2005-09-09 may finish any day now. In anticipation of this, I wrote an analysis script that handles the new XML dump format. It can be found at User:Bo Lindbergh/dabalyze. Comments and suggestions welcome. Bo Lindbergh 22:43, September 11, 2005 (UTC)
Aaand it's finished! Downloading now. Bo Lindbergh 03:03, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
So why didn't Turk even show up on the new list? That's kind of embarassing that the current collaboration isn't on the list. (Not that very many people are working on it anyway.) Whitejay251 06:37, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
I've placed the old list here, hope that's ok.
Also, do we need the "Suggestions for improvement" section, I've never come across a {{msg:disambig}}? -- Commander Keane 11:14, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
Using a search/replace bot, I was able to identify and correct over 100 pages that contained the phrase "[[album]] by [[American]]
", invariably followed by "band", "singer", "rock band", etc., thereby reducing the counts for both of our top two targets. Adventurous participants might want to try searching for other double-disambigs like "[[album]] by [[German]]
", "[[album]] by [[British]]
", etc. --
Russ Blau
(talk) 20:31, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
District attorney should not be a disambig - the two choices it purports to disambig between are virtually the same officials at different levels of government. I intend to make it an actual article on the office, and all the current disambig links will be fine pointing to that article. -- BD2412 talk 00:00, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
I've added some functionality to
my popups tool which should help with disambiguation. To enable it, you should install the experimental development version of my script. See
Wikipedia:Navigation popups for instructions, and be sure to set popupFixDabs=true;.
To use it, hover the mouse over a link pointing to a disambiguation page. A popup should appear, and after a (hopefully short) pause, a preview of the disambig page followed by a list of possible disambiguation targets should appear. Click one of the links at the bottom of the popup to disambiguate the link. The popup can get rather long, so you may have to scroll the page to see the links at the bottom (with keyboard or mousewheel).
If this is useful, if you have an idea to improve it or if it fails to work, please let me know! Lupin| talk| popups 02:12, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
I've been spending some time disambiguating (mainly English and £), and have come to the conclusion that there are situations when it is best not to disambiguate. For example:
Part of the richness of language is that it is possible to be deliberately imply several meanings:
Disambiguating by choosing one of these three actually looses imformation
Although I've used English in most of the examples above, I think that similar things apply in many cases of nationality/language/ethnicity. In disambiguating "English" most of the links were actually about the language and straightforward. But in the case when it was not about language I often felt the best option was to leave the ambiguity.
In terms of the educational aims of Wikipedia, it is sometimes educational to the reader to be presented with the fact that a term is ambiguous. Sure, it's mostly correct to go straight to the correct article, but if the readers reaction to a disambiguation link is likely to be "Gosh, I never realised that 'Ireland' meant so many things", then perhaps it's good to leave the ambiguity. User:Martin.Budden 29 Sept 2005.
The disambig page Legion of Honor is nearly empty, with only two real options. Every, or almost every, page that links to it really wants the Légion d'honneur page, not the non-existant page about the building in France or the other one about the building in San Fransisco. Could we just redirect [[Legion of Honor]] to [[Légion d'honneur]] and add a header to the latter page about the San Francisco art museum? Stillnotelf 23:02, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
I went to go work on Classical music, I discovered that {{ Classical-composition-stub}} contains a link to the dab page. We probably don't want to repair this, since the stub will be put on any type of classical music, right? Unfortunately, this will lead to a bunch of false links... --best, kevin ··· Kzollman | Talk··· 15:01, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
I hereby propose a challenge - that we set a specific date and time, and have a competition to see who can accurately fix the most disambiguation links in one hour.
The rules are simple:
So, who's in? -- BD2412 talk 17:23, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
OK, I've started a project page at Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links/Challenge
Sorry to be a stick in the mud, but how can you check which links are disambiguated accurately? Unfortunately this challenge will result in quantity rather than quality. Once a link has been disambiguated incorrectly, it's hard too fix it. Martin.Budden 18:39, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
Is there a way to highlight (or whatever) all/most of the possible required disambiguation page links when in the edit window. It is frustrating having to revisit the same article to fix up various links.
Also, could there be a Techniques/help/bots section (or subpage) created so that there is an overview of things that can help dab link repair efficiency? -- Commander Keane 09:06, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
-- Russ Blau (talk) 13:25, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
I propose Urban - it's relatively small and should be fun. BD2412 talk 19:34, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
Note: Urban music, with about 40 links, currently redirects to Urban - it should definitely be a separate article. BD2412 talk 18:54, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
I've been working on fixing links toward disambiuation pages toward two regions in France: Ile-de-France and Auvergne. There used to be provinces in the Middle Ages but in the 1980's, the government created administrative divisions with the same name. As a consequence, there are two pages, one for the province and one for the region. However, some articles talk about this person, born in the, say, 1920's who was born in 'Auvergne'. It doesn't make sense to point to either of the articles and it that case, I'm leaving the link toward the disambiguation page. I think, as a general rule, that links toward disambiguation pages can be OK.
Tony 02:52, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
Urban is done now, so it's time to nominate a new page. For the future, we should probably get these nominations sorted out in advance. Having said that, I never have any good ideas myself. -- Commander Keane 06:43, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
It appears that an Oct-09 dump is available on download.wikimedia.org. Should we update this page? -- Russ Blau (talk) 10:56, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
Since I posted the above, there is now a 20-Oct dump available. -- Russ Blau (talk) 21:46, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
OK, switched over to the October 20 dump. Please have a look at Author, which consists of a list of definitions and one link to a specific page ( Author (biology)). Does it really qualify as a disambiguation page? Bo Lindbergh 04:58, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
On 23 Oct, Baden Germany was moved to Baden, so that Baden is no longer a dab page. (And no one here noticed?) So it's time to pick a new collaboration. Suggestions? -- Russ Blau (talk) 21:01, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
This one is dubious. It could be argued that the correct action is to simply delete the {{disambig}} from the article.
I wonder if that is possible with other disambiguation pages, for example: South Pacific where relinking some links to Oceania is kind of akward. The great majority of articles that link to South Pacific are not really wanting to link to Oceania as it complicates the matter. -- Mexaguil 05:49, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
I saw someone running a bot this morning that was changing links from the Native American redirect page to the Native Americans disambig page. Maybe I'm missing something, but how does this help? The edits were being made by User:68.230.177.98, but I thought maybe it was a registered user running the bot. Thanks for your input in explaining this to me. EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 19:01, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
I realize we don't use bots all the time for this project because these links require a human's touch. However, for the Lunar disambiguation, many (100s) of the pages are craters of the moon. I don't know much about the programming of these bots, but could we have a bot that changes [[lunar]] to [[Moon|lunar]] for pages that have (crater) in the title? EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 00:49, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
This would be a good strategy for quite a few disambigs, I imagine - clear out the questionable ones manually, leave the easy ones for a bot. BD2412 talk 05:39, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
Thanks to everyone for their help and comments, especially Commander Keane. Unfortunately, only a few of these pages have such simple solutions (which of course is why the disambiguation page exists in the first place). Good thing I don't have a case of editcountitis...I could have taken a day to mechanically do every single one of the craters, and I would have tripled my current edit count. :o) EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 06:28, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links/Guide has been created. I thought it might need some publicity.-- Commander Keane 10:43, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi! I have been working on dabbing Network and run into about 200 articles that I am not sure (read as: not confident) in changing. Some of the links appear to "need" a dictionary entry and the current disambig page does a poor job of that. Any thoughts are appreciated! >: Roby Wayne Talk 07:22, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
Of the many links we deal with in this project, many would be best suited by a dictionary defintion.
Your ideas are requested.-- Commander Keane 17:50, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
I'd suggest that whoever tackles that one be very careful. Jkelly 05:08, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
This isn't directly related to this project, but it's highly related to disambiguation, so I figured I'd post it here to get comments and help from experts/admins. I've posted a message on Talk:Staten Island about the necessity of Staten Island (disambiguation). Does anyone else feel that this page should be deleted? EWS23 | [[User_talk:EWS23|(Leave me a message!)]] 04:22, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
P.S.- In addition, can anyone tell me why my signature suddenly stopped working? I haven't done anything to change it...
... should not be a disambig - all the links refer to rap music. BD2412 T 04:27, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
As with "lunar" above, all of the few-hundred articles titled "Foo (crater)" (or occasionally "Foo (lunar crater)" refer to named impact craters on the moon. Can a bot pick out these titles and change [[crater]] to [[impact crater|crater]]? BD2412 T 14:08, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
I don't think it was a good choice to change pepper to not be a disambiguation page. Black pepper and capsicums ( chile peppers and bell peppers) are very different things; it's always an improvement to disambig those links. I'm currently disambiguating them anyway, but I thought I would solicit opinions on whether pepper should be restored as a disambiguation page. — Bunchofgrapes ( talk) 21:06, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
Someone has seen fit to create a giant disambig link farm at Dictionary of languages - not sure I'd say this is even Wikipedic, as it's likely too big and too full of false positives to be useful. BD2412 T 04:03, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
I took off Drug as the current collab. We discussed the difficulty of this one earlier (above), and I'd think it would be best if only "easy" dabs are set as the collaboration. I'll put on Classical music soon if there are no objections.-- Commander Keane 16:14, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
I propose Liberal instead. It's been growing steadily. It is a little tricky, though, as the differences among the various targets of disambiguation are not always clear. -- Russ Blau (talk) 19:53, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
Before we begin the next round, can we generate a list of disambig links in templates? If we can find and fix those, then have a bot just touch all of the pages with disambig links, we can head off transclusions. BD2412 T 19:44, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
I've noticed that Portal subpages are also typically transcluded - can we get a similar list of Portal links? (should be much shorter, I'm guessing 50 or so) bd2412 T 23:13, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
I am fixing the disambiguation pages about manga, anime and video consoles. For now, I don't have the self discipline nor the time to pick one of the lists suggested here. However, I would like using the disambiguation link repair ( You can help!) tag when fixing those errors, if only to spread the word about this project.
I just don't want anyone to say "This dude has never fixed a disamb. page found here, yet acts as if he had!" ;-) -- ReyBrujo 19:40, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
(Discussion moved from the project page to here. Bo Lindbergh 03:43, 6 December 2005 (UTC))
(part of the issue with this one is Template:Material-stub refers to material. This accounts for 120+/- of these links) Kaiserb 05:33, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
At the moment the progress is manually calculated by summing up the number of fixed links. To aid this I use html comments like
<!--Subtotal (for above ten entries): 7993, Cummulative total: 7993-->
"in the "Done" section. I was hoping that others would use this too, but since no one else uses the html comment (as far as I can tell) I end up doing it. I find that a bit of a waste of time, since I have a script that I can run anytime that tells me the exact progress.
I'm asking if (for the next dump) I can use my script to update the progress daily, rather than doing to manual summation. This has the advantage of a more accurate progress, but the disadvantage that only I can run the script. What do you think?-- Commander Keane 22:54, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
At the Project there is disucssion about a new template that will go on the talk of dab pages to aid link repair. Your ideas are requested.-- Commander Keane 11:55, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
I've fixed the links for all articles except List of songs whose title includes geographical names (since I wouldn't know what a Dutch song is referring to) and List of state leaders in 1747 and the like, so a bot could change all of the latter to Groningen (province).
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 1 | Archive 2 | Archive 3 | Archive 4 | Archive 5 | → | Archive 10 |
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 1 | Archive 2 | Archive 3 | Archive 4 | Archive 5 | → | Archive 10 |
Cleared 100+ entries on Hyderabad yesterday & today (too slow for 24 hours? ;)). 85% of them link to Hyderabad, India, 10% to Hyderabad, Pakistan and 5% to Hyderabad State. (almost disambiguated all Hyderabad, India entries. Of the unfinished job left, majority would be of Hyderabad, Pakistan with some to Hyderabad State). So, I was wondering if Hyderabad should lead directly to Hyderabad, India with 2 disambiguation links on that page. Any views? --- Gurubrahma 07:44, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
It looks like the database dump started on 2005-09-09 may finish any day now. In anticipation of this, I wrote an analysis script that handles the new XML dump format. It can be found at User:Bo Lindbergh/dabalyze. Comments and suggestions welcome. Bo Lindbergh 22:43, September 11, 2005 (UTC)
Aaand it's finished! Downloading now. Bo Lindbergh 03:03, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
So why didn't Turk even show up on the new list? That's kind of embarassing that the current collaboration isn't on the list. (Not that very many people are working on it anyway.) Whitejay251 06:37, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
I've placed the old list here, hope that's ok.
Also, do we need the "Suggestions for improvement" section, I've never come across a {{msg:disambig}}? -- Commander Keane 11:14, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
Using a search/replace bot, I was able to identify and correct over 100 pages that contained the phrase "[[album]] by [[American]]
", invariably followed by "band", "singer", "rock band", etc., thereby reducing the counts for both of our top two targets. Adventurous participants might want to try searching for other double-disambigs like "[[album]] by [[German]]
", "[[album]] by [[British]]
", etc. --
Russ Blau
(talk) 20:31, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
District attorney should not be a disambig - the two choices it purports to disambig between are virtually the same officials at different levels of government. I intend to make it an actual article on the office, and all the current disambig links will be fine pointing to that article. -- BD2412 talk 00:00, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
I've added some functionality to
my popups tool which should help with disambiguation. To enable it, you should install the experimental development version of my script. See
Wikipedia:Navigation popups for instructions, and be sure to set popupFixDabs=true;.
To use it, hover the mouse over a link pointing to a disambiguation page. A popup should appear, and after a (hopefully short) pause, a preview of the disambig page followed by a list of possible disambiguation targets should appear. Click one of the links at the bottom of the popup to disambiguate the link. The popup can get rather long, so you may have to scroll the page to see the links at the bottom (with keyboard or mousewheel).
If this is useful, if you have an idea to improve it or if it fails to work, please let me know! Lupin| talk| popups 02:12, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
I've been spending some time disambiguating (mainly English and £), and have come to the conclusion that there are situations when it is best not to disambiguate. For example:
Part of the richness of language is that it is possible to be deliberately imply several meanings:
Disambiguating by choosing one of these three actually looses imformation
Although I've used English in most of the examples above, I think that similar things apply in many cases of nationality/language/ethnicity. In disambiguating "English" most of the links were actually about the language and straightforward. But in the case when it was not about language I often felt the best option was to leave the ambiguity.
In terms of the educational aims of Wikipedia, it is sometimes educational to the reader to be presented with the fact that a term is ambiguous. Sure, it's mostly correct to go straight to the correct article, but if the readers reaction to a disambiguation link is likely to be "Gosh, I never realised that 'Ireland' meant so many things", then perhaps it's good to leave the ambiguity. User:Martin.Budden 29 Sept 2005.
The disambig page Legion of Honor is nearly empty, with only two real options. Every, or almost every, page that links to it really wants the Légion d'honneur page, not the non-existant page about the building in France or the other one about the building in San Fransisco. Could we just redirect [[Legion of Honor]] to [[Légion d'honneur]] and add a header to the latter page about the San Francisco art museum? Stillnotelf 23:02, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
I went to go work on Classical music, I discovered that {{ Classical-composition-stub}} contains a link to the dab page. We probably don't want to repair this, since the stub will be put on any type of classical music, right? Unfortunately, this will lead to a bunch of false links... --best, kevin ··· Kzollman | Talk··· 15:01, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
I hereby propose a challenge - that we set a specific date and time, and have a competition to see who can accurately fix the most disambiguation links in one hour.
The rules are simple:
So, who's in? -- BD2412 talk 17:23, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
OK, I've started a project page at Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links/Challenge
Sorry to be a stick in the mud, but how can you check which links are disambiguated accurately? Unfortunately this challenge will result in quantity rather than quality. Once a link has been disambiguated incorrectly, it's hard too fix it. Martin.Budden 18:39, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
Is there a way to highlight (or whatever) all/most of the possible required disambiguation page links when in the edit window. It is frustrating having to revisit the same article to fix up various links.
Also, could there be a Techniques/help/bots section (or subpage) created so that there is an overview of things that can help dab link repair efficiency? -- Commander Keane 09:06, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
-- Russ Blau (talk) 13:25, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
I propose Urban - it's relatively small and should be fun. BD2412 talk 19:34, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
Note: Urban music, with about 40 links, currently redirects to Urban - it should definitely be a separate article. BD2412 talk 18:54, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
I've been working on fixing links toward disambiuation pages toward two regions in France: Ile-de-France and Auvergne. There used to be provinces in the Middle Ages but in the 1980's, the government created administrative divisions with the same name. As a consequence, there are two pages, one for the province and one for the region. However, some articles talk about this person, born in the, say, 1920's who was born in 'Auvergne'. It doesn't make sense to point to either of the articles and it that case, I'm leaving the link toward the disambiguation page. I think, as a general rule, that links toward disambiguation pages can be OK.
Tony 02:52, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
Urban is done now, so it's time to nominate a new page. For the future, we should probably get these nominations sorted out in advance. Having said that, I never have any good ideas myself. -- Commander Keane 06:43, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
It appears that an Oct-09 dump is available on download.wikimedia.org. Should we update this page? -- Russ Blau (talk) 10:56, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
Since I posted the above, there is now a 20-Oct dump available. -- Russ Blau (talk) 21:46, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
OK, switched over to the October 20 dump. Please have a look at Author, which consists of a list of definitions and one link to a specific page ( Author (biology)). Does it really qualify as a disambiguation page? Bo Lindbergh 04:58, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
On 23 Oct, Baden Germany was moved to Baden, so that Baden is no longer a dab page. (And no one here noticed?) So it's time to pick a new collaboration. Suggestions? -- Russ Blau (talk) 21:01, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
This one is dubious. It could be argued that the correct action is to simply delete the {{disambig}} from the article.
I wonder if that is possible with other disambiguation pages, for example: South Pacific where relinking some links to Oceania is kind of akward. The great majority of articles that link to South Pacific are not really wanting to link to Oceania as it complicates the matter. -- Mexaguil 05:49, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
I saw someone running a bot this morning that was changing links from the Native American redirect page to the Native Americans disambig page. Maybe I'm missing something, but how does this help? The edits were being made by User:68.230.177.98, but I thought maybe it was a registered user running the bot. Thanks for your input in explaining this to me. EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 19:01, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
I realize we don't use bots all the time for this project because these links require a human's touch. However, for the Lunar disambiguation, many (100s) of the pages are craters of the moon. I don't know much about the programming of these bots, but could we have a bot that changes [[lunar]] to [[Moon|lunar]] for pages that have (crater) in the title? EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 00:49, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
This would be a good strategy for quite a few disambigs, I imagine - clear out the questionable ones manually, leave the easy ones for a bot. BD2412 talk 05:39, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
Thanks to everyone for their help and comments, especially Commander Keane. Unfortunately, only a few of these pages have such simple solutions (which of course is why the disambiguation page exists in the first place). Good thing I don't have a case of editcountitis...I could have taken a day to mechanically do every single one of the craters, and I would have tripled my current edit count. :o) EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 06:28, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links/Guide has been created. I thought it might need some publicity.-- Commander Keane 10:43, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi! I have been working on dabbing Network and run into about 200 articles that I am not sure (read as: not confident) in changing. Some of the links appear to "need" a dictionary entry and the current disambig page does a poor job of that. Any thoughts are appreciated! >: Roby Wayne Talk 07:22, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
Of the many links we deal with in this project, many would be best suited by a dictionary defintion.
Your ideas are requested.-- Commander Keane 17:50, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
I'd suggest that whoever tackles that one be very careful. Jkelly 05:08, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
This isn't directly related to this project, but it's highly related to disambiguation, so I figured I'd post it here to get comments and help from experts/admins. I've posted a message on Talk:Staten Island about the necessity of Staten Island (disambiguation). Does anyone else feel that this page should be deleted? EWS23 | [[User_talk:EWS23|(Leave me a message!)]] 04:22, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
P.S.- In addition, can anyone tell me why my signature suddenly stopped working? I haven't done anything to change it...
... should not be a disambig - all the links refer to rap music. BD2412 T 04:27, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
As with "lunar" above, all of the few-hundred articles titled "Foo (crater)" (or occasionally "Foo (lunar crater)" refer to named impact craters on the moon. Can a bot pick out these titles and change [[crater]] to [[impact crater|crater]]? BD2412 T 14:08, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
I don't think it was a good choice to change pepper to not be a disambiguation page. Black pepper and capsicums ( chile peppers and bell peppers) are very different things; it's always an improvement to disambig those links. I'm currently disambiguating them anyway, but I thought I would solicit opinions on whether pepper should be restored as a disambiguation page. — Bunchofgrapes ( talk) 21:06, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
Someone has seen fit to create a giant disambig link farm at Dictionary of languages - not sure I'd say this is even Wikipedic, as it's likely too big and too full of false positives to be useful. BD2412 T 04:03, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
I took off Drug as the current collab. We discussed the difficulty of this one earlier (above), and I'd think it would be best if only "easy" dabs are set as the collaboration. I'll put on Classical music soon if there are no objections.-- Commander Keane 16:14, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
I propose Liberal instead. It's been growing steadily. It is a little tricky, though, as the differences among the various targets of disambiguation are not always clear. -- Russ Blau (talk) 19:53, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
Before we begin the next round, can we generate a list of disambig links in templates? If we can find and fix those, then have a bot just touch all of the pages with disambig links, we can head off transclusions. BD2412 T 19:44, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
I've noticed that Portal subpages are also typically transcluded - can we get a similar list of Portal links? (should be much shorter, I'm guessing 50 or so) bd2412 T 23:13, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
I am fixing the disambiguation pages about manga, anime and video consoles. For now, I don't have the self discipline nor the time to pick one of the lists suggested here. However, I would like using the disambiguation link repair ( You can help!) tag when fixing those errors, if only to spread the word about this project.
I just don't want anyone to say "This dude has never fixed a disamb. page found here, yet acts as if he had!" ;-) -- ReyBrujo 19:40, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
(Discussion moved from the project page to here. Bo Lindbergh 03:43, 6 December 2005 (UTC))
(part of the issue with this one is Template:Material-stub refers to material. This accounts for 120+/- of these links) Kaiserb 05:33, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
At the moment the progress is manually calculated by summing up the number of fixed links. To aid this I use html comments like
<!--Subtotal (for above ten entries): 7993, Cummulative total: 7993-->
"in the "Done" section. I was hoping that others would use this too, but since no one else uses the html comment (as far as I can tell) I end up doing it. I find that a bit of a waste of time, since I have a script that I can run anytime that tells me the exact progress.
I'm asking if (for the next dump) I can use my script to update the progress daily, rather than doing to manual summation. This has the advantage of a more accurate progress, but the disadvantage that only I can run the script. What do you think?-- Commander Keane 22:54, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
At the Project there is disucssion about a new template that will go on the talk of dab pages to aid link repair. Your ideas are requested.-- Commander Keane 11:55, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
I've fixed the links for all articles except List of songs whose title includes geographical names (since I wouldn't know what a Dutch song is referring to) and List of state leaders in 1747 and the like, so a bot could change all of the latter to Groningen (province).
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
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