DRAFT and TEST PROCEDURE Please don't go great guns on this until we discuss and verify what we're doing.
If we're going to really go through all the links to "climate change" and make sure they either point at climate change (general concept)orglobal warming we need a way to track our progress. I don't know if this is the best way, but it was suggested as an option. I prepared the list using WP:AWB. The search was based on "What links here directly" and limited to articles. I saved the list to a TXT file and then added formatting with Excel. And voila. Maybe there is an easier way, but I am going to try opening the ones that I check in an edit window, then search for "[[climate change]]" and "[[climate change|". After checking and correcting as needed, please mark it {{done}}~~~~
We should probably write a short guide with some common changes, and maybe a standard edit summary to leave when saving, etc.
As it's a lot of work put Done after every page (1/3 of the work), I suggest we work in batches of at least 10, but maybe 100. Furthermore, with a possible name change from global warming -> climate change (my fav option) I think it's best not to burden ourselves with correcting these links. Femke Nijsse (talk) 17:22, 31 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Femke Nijsse (talk) 17:55, 31 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Article indices | Volunteer | Finished |
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1- 100 | Femke Nijsse (talk) 18:22, 31 October 2019 (UTC)[reply] | ![]() |
101 - 200 | Femke Nijsse (talk) 18:22, 31 October 2019 (UTC)[reply] | ![]() |
201 - 300 | You? |
I indeed think that new incoming links will be made slowly AND that most of the links to climate change (general concept) will be made by people with a higher level of expertise that know they need to check if the link goes to a general article or to the current episode of climate change. Pagewatchers and link-clickers will correct the rest. I think that in 5 years, we'll only have about 20 wrong links or something, nothing I would worry about. That script sounds good too in option 3, seems like not much more work. Except that for me most time is now spend on waiting for the page to be saved.. Femke Nijsse (talk) 19:08, 31 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
List created by NewsAndEventsGuy 2019-10-313
Are they all marked "done"? HOORAY! Everyone who helped, please take a bow.
Not wishing to risk a recurrence of the repetitive strain injury I have had in the past I am not volunteering to do any manual work on this. However looking through the spreadsheet of snippets linked above I can see that almost all of the first 100 articles in that spreadsheet are definitely about CURRENT climate change i.e. CURRENT global warming. Exactly 10 articles MIGHT be about climate change as a concept but would need checking manually. So if I looked through the whole spreadsheet I suspect I would be able to produce a list of less than 600 articles for someone else to check manually and, if necessary, amend to link to climate change as a concept. Then presumably the remainder could be either left as they are or dealt with by a redirect or some kind of automated process. If you would like me to look through the whole spreadsheet let me know. Chidgk1 (talk) 17:03, 3 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]