Okay, something I wanted discuss that's important:
I and Vorticity have been brainstorming ways to clean up our tons and tons of redirected pages so we don't have so many redirects to worry about, but even though I have figured out how to make a list of the currently 35,000+ redirects we have, converted them for my bot program, and could run it and fix them all in one shot, I'm afraid it will cause a problem.
Specifically, due to the scale of the job, it will take several days, and during that time, I would have to ask for a freeze on page renames/removes. The bot would be fixing pages on a wiki wide scale, so any further page renames/moves during the process would complicate matters and make the process take longer.
We are not doing this yet, but we would like to do this to clean up a lot of links, so I just wanted to let anyone who need to know what we require to pull this off.
I and Vorticity have been brainstorming ways to clean up our tons and tons of redirected pages so we don't have so many redirects to worry about, but even though I have figured out how to make a list of the currently 35,000+ redirects we have, converted them for my bot program, and could run it and fix them all in one shot, I'm afraid it will cause a problem.
Specifically, due to the scale of the job, it will take several days, and during that time, I would have to ask for a freeze on page renames/removes. The bot would be fixing pages on a wiki wide scale, so any further page renames/moves during the process would complicate matters and make the process take longer.
We are not doing this yet, but we would like to do this to clean up a lot of links, so I just wanted to let anyone who need to know what we require to pull this off.