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Bug 17665 - Special:WantedPages shouldn't list dead Redirect Pages


Summary:	Special:WantedPages shouldn't list dead Redirect Pages

Status:	PATCH_TO_REVIEW

Product:	MediaWiki
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Special pages (Other open bugs)
Version:	1.21.x
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	Low minor with 2 votes (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	JuneHyeon Bae (devunt)

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Reported:	2009-02-25 21:18 UTC by Subfader
Modified:	2014-06-05 20:32 UTC (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Description Subfader 2009-02-25 21:18:37 UTC

I f you don't clean up broken redirects Special:WantedPages is full of dead redirect pages instead of properly only listing linked but non-existing pages.

Special:BrokenRedirects exists for that.

Comment 1 JuneHyeon Bae (devunt) 2013-03-16 10:23:10 UTC

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/54120/

Comment 2 Andre Klapper 2013-07-25 08:06:10 UTC

Latest version of patch in Gerrit still needs review...

Comment 3 JuneHyeon Bae (devunt) 2013-10-30 00:58:14 UTC

*bump*

Comment 4 Bawolff (Brian Wolff) 2014-06-05 20:32:19 UTC

(Bringing the discussion from code review over here)

There's two possible ways to fix this bug:

*Broken redirects are excluded when calculating this special page totally. They are not included in the count of the number of links to a page, and just generally are ignored

or

*Broken redirects are included in the count of links to a page. However if all the links to a particular page are broken redirects, then that page is excluded from the list on the special page.

I favour option 1. I think its more consistent to either fully count broken redirects, or not count them at all instead of only semi-counting them. I believe Devunt favours option 2 (See code review for his/her arguments). Anyways, I'd like to ask if other people have opinions or thoughts on the matter.

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