https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57515
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Bug ID: 57515
Summary: Create new extension to suggest redirects based on
what redirects exist on Wikipedia
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: master
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Extensions requests
Assignee: wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Reporter: nathanlarson3...@gmail.com
Classification: Unclassified
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It's rather time-consuming, when one is creating articles on one's local wiki,
to add all the redirects for the names that people might use in their attempts
to look up various topics. Wikipedia has already done this work in many cases,
and there is often no need to reinvent the wheel.
E.g. suppose I am creating a Mises Wiki article on John Maynard Keynes. People
might very well search for the Mises Wiki article on him using the same names
(e.g. "John Keynes", "Lord Keynes", etc.) that, on Wikipedia, are redirects to
John Maynard Keynes; so Mises Wiki may as well have the very same redirects.
The presence of these redirects will also make it less likely people will
inadvertently create two articles on the same topic, and it will also encourage
them to pick the name for the topic that has been chosen on Wikipedia as being
the best name.
Therefore, I propose a new extension to do the following. When a user clicks on
a redlink, it will still prompt him to create a new page but also note, e.g.,
if he clicked on a link leading to a non-existent John Keynes article, "On
Wikipedia, John Keynes redirects to John Maynard Keynes. Click here to instead
create a new article entitled John Maynard Keynes (a redirect will
automatically be created from John Keynes)."
If the John Maynard Keynes article already exists, then if the user clicks on a
redlink to John Keynes, it should note, "On Wikipedia, John Keynes redirects to
John Maynard Keynes. This wiki has an article entitled John Maynard Keynes.
Click here to create a redirect on this wiki from John Keynes to John Maynard
Keynes."
Also, if a user creates a new article entitled John Maynard Keynes, the
extension should present him with a checklist similar to the list of redirects
you see at
https://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/rdcheck.py?page=John_Maynard_Keynes
and ask if he wants to create all those redirects leading to it on the local
wiki.
There are a few ways the extension could do this. The simplest option is to
poll Wikipedia's API at the time someone clicks on a mainspace redlink.
However, that causes the polling to increase proportionately to editing
activity, so it's not scalable, as it would violate live mirrors policy.
If one doesn't mind waiting until dumps are released to get a new redirects
list, the extension (or a bot that accesses an API module that the extension
adds) could check the RSS feed for that file and import the data when it
becomes available. Alternatively, the extension (or a bot) could periodically
poll the Wikipedia API (much as, say, Extension:InterwikiMap polls Meta-Wiki to
get the interwiki table), using apfilterredir=redirects. I'm not sure that
there's any easy way to get an incremental update since existing pages could
become redirects at any time and existing redirects could be changed into
non-redirect pages at any time. So I guess it's necessary to get a complete
list whenever one wants to update one's local table of Wikipedia redirects.
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