On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Charles Matthews<[email protected]> wrote: > Carcharoth wrote: >> Anyway, what I wanted to know was whether there are places on >> Wikipedia where such approaches to lists and checking links is >> documented? I do remember something about various lists of entries >> from places like the DNB. >> >> Ah here we are: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Missing_encyclopedic_articles/DNB_lists_discussion >> >> "List maintenance, first pass. Add {{tick}}, {{dn}} and {{mnl}} >> templates, respectively for correct bluelinks, bluelinks needing >> disambiguation and bluelinks that are definitely wrong." [...] List >> maintenance, second pass: redirecting redlinks. Go through creating >> redirects and adding {{tick}} to new bluelinks." >> >> That comes closest, I think, to what I was describing above. >> > Kind of you to mention the DNB project, which works at the unglamorous > end of the 'pedia. What you have cited was the result of a > commonsensical cutting-back of a complete series of maintenance > templates, alluded to in [[User:Charles Matthews/WikiProject DNBMerge]] > (a non-current page). I decided at the time that a good flowchart of the > various states of a list entry would be the thing to set up to clarify > this area; but in fact life proved too short and the preparation of > lists had to take priority or nothing would get done.
Where is the current activity on the DNB project? It's something I had kept in mind and wouldn't mind getting involved with at some stage. Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
