Question; are LOC links handled in a standardised way using a template? Because if so this could be one change, not hundreds of thousands.
(If it's not I'd really suggest using the same edit sets and opportunity to restructure them that way, if LOC links are consistent enough for it to be done. That way you'll both avoid this problem in the future if something goes kooky - only have to make one edit! - and have a much easier way of identifying how many there are and where they live) On 13 January 2016 at 10:49, Risker <[email protected]> wrote: > Before properly answering this question, it's important to know how many > links we're talking about. If it's 5000, the fallout is probably > manageable; but if it's in the hundreds of thousands on any project (most > likely enwiki) there will be renting of garments and gnashing of teeth. > All those changes show up on people's watchlists, after all. > > Please also ensure that if you're changing the URL, it's not just a http > --> https swap, but that the new URL is tested to verify it lands on a real > page. There are no doubt plenty of bad links in amongst all those URLs - > even government websites rearrange themselves periodically - and replacing > a bad link with a more secure bad link is not really helpful. > > Risker/Anne > > On 13 January 2016 at 13:32, Max Semenik <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Fix them with a bot, for example AWB >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser>. >> >> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 9:09 AM, Chris Adams <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > I've been working with a number of colleagues getting ready to turn HTTPS >> > on by default for various loc.gov domains. This has been fairly >> successful >> > and we're working through the old legacy apps now. >> > >> > When that work completes, we'll have somewhere around half a million >> links >> > which differ only in the URL scheme. What would be the best way to >> rewrite >> > all of those URLs? I'd like to reduce the window during which users >> transit >> > from HTTPS -> HTTP -> HTTPS. >> > >> > If anyone's curious, I've been collecting the links for a few dozen wikis >> > in a somewhat oversized Git repo: >> > >> > https://github.com/acdha/lc-wikipedia-links >> > >> > The first site which has completely migrated is the much smaller World >> > Digital Library which has just under four thousand links: >> > https://gist.github.com/acdha/f785b22b356a9842439e >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Chris >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikitech-l mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Best regards, >> Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Oliver Keyes Count Logula Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
