On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Mark Clements (HappyDog) < [email protected]> wrote:
> "Nikola Smolenski" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... > > On Monday 02 February 2009 19:56:16 Chad wrote: > >> ExcessiveRedirects? > > > > That's POV. MultipleRedirects? > > > >> On Feb 2, 2009 10:31 AM, "Stephen Bain" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Chad <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On > >> Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:43... > >> >> 2) If not, should there be a new Special: page to list such > >> >> "excessive" > >> >> redirect chains? > > ... > >> > >> ReReRedirects? > > How about Special:RedirectChains. > > It might be useful to add an input box so you can specify a length to > report > on (e.g. entering 1 gives you all double-redirects, as current, entering a > higher number restricts it to longer chains). It should, of course, > default > to the value of $wgMaxRedirects, and if set to another value indicate what > the default is. I don't know how useful that would be, but I'm sure there > are some uses, for example if you have had $wgMaxRedirects set to a high > number but the server load is too great, and so you want to reduce it. > This > would allow you to find all affected redirects and fix them before you make > the change to the setting. > > - Mark Clements (HappyDog) > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > We don't store the entire redirect chain yet, so it's a little hard to count how many jumps are in it and sort by that, but it's certainly a good idea for an eventual implementation of it. I like the name, too. -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
