Last modified: 2007-08-22 07:58:56 UTC
Special:DoubleRedirects has various issues. 1) If there are other links on the page of a normal (single) redirect, if any of the other links link to a redirect, the page will be listed at Special:DoubleRedirects. 2) When redirects are cleared, their "spots" will still be taken up on the special page, but they will not be listed, forcing you to press "Next" many times to get to the redirects. 3) The page sometimes updates extremely infrequently, and it would be much better if it updated more frequently.
It's better to report seperate bugs, because Bugzilla is built for that. (In reply to comment #0) > 1) If there are other links on the page of a normal (single) redirect, if any of > the other links link to a redirect, the page will be listed at > Special:DoubleRedirects. That's Bug 7794. > 2) When redirects are cleared, their "spots" will still be taken up on the > special page, but they will not be listed, forcing you to press "Next" many > times to get to the redirects. Please explain the problem more clearly. > 3) The page sometimes updates extremely infrequently, and it would be much > better if it updated more frequently. I think that the page is updated daily in Wikipedia, and something like once a week in other sites. It's not a MediaWiki bug. I suggest that this bug will be about the second problem (which I didn't understand yet), as the first is reported in another bug, and the third is not a MediaWiki bug. You can report the third problem on another bug, under the product Wikimedia.
>> 2) When redirects are cleared, their "spots" will still be taken up on the >> special page, but they will not be listed, forcing you to press "Next" many >> times to get to the redirects. > >Please explain the problem more clearly. Suppose 500 redirects are listed at Special:DoubleRedirects. The first 50 will be displayed by default. Someone then comes and fixes the first 50 double redirects. Then someone else goes to Special:DoubleRedirects. The first page is now empty, and the person has the click "Next" to see the next 50 redirects (which will start at #51). If 400 redirects are cleared, "Next 50" has to be clicked quite a few times (or you can display 500) to see the next redirects (which will start at #401)l
OK. Full description, I think: Cached query page items seem to use fixed numbers, which may cause pages without items in pages which remove changed items are removed (e.g. Special:DoubleRedirects). It may make sense to remove the fixed numbers. I will check the querycache table structure for more information. Workaround: Use "View 500 items".
Yes, that's the correct description.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 9263 ***
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 10985 ***
