I imagine you would need to go through the process, yep, since it's kind of a lot of edits that'd need clearing up if something went wrong.
On 15 January 2016 at 13:32, Chris Adams <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 12:47 PM, Legoktm <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > 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. >> >> You can use Pywikbot's replace.py[1], which lets you provide regex >> find/replace and can get a list of pages from the API equivalent of >> Special:LinkSearch. >> > > Thanks – I gave this a test using our simplest site ( > https://gist.github.com/acdha/77354c76bf503b6f455f) to produce a minor edit > like this: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=World_Digital_Library&diff=700008071&oldid=699554478 > > I had a question about etiquette: is a one-time operation like this > considered a bot for the purposes of needing to go through the approval > process? I anticipate running this multiple times as each application is > migrated but it would be a one-time process and since there will be > permanent redirects there won't be a need for this to run automatically in > the future since users won't be seeing http: URLs any more. > > Chris > _______________________________________________ > 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
