Re: Red links on steroids

Magnus Manske <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc
Message-ID <CAGHUEtZyz9P_njvCv9O46ZfmUyb7E2kF+apzBcFvr3gTeXSmeQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Andy Mabbett <[email protected]>wrote:

> On 23 March 2014 10:18, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Magnus Manske created a new template on the en.wp named "Redwd" [1]. It
> > does do two things, it leaves the red link red and, it refers to both
> > Wikidata and the Reasonator
>
> > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Redwd
>
> A great dies.
>
> I've added a third example to the documentation, using an existing
> article (a blue, not red, link). This will occur, for example, when a
> missing article is created by an editor unaware of the template's use
> elsewhere.
>
> The template should detect this, and display nothing. A bot should
> occasionally remove such instances.
>
The template now shows only the "blue" link for existing links. It also
adds [[Category:Redwd existing link]] to the page, so bots ot humans can
replace the template.
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