To answer my own question, no, it won't: it will move all the 5.0 pages that have 5.1 redirects to pages named "Broken/ID:nnnn" and the result is a huge mess.
Either the redirects must be deleted first, or the code in cleanupTitles fixed to move over redirects. Robert On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Robert Ullmann <rlullm...@gmail.com> wrote: > In December, Praveen Prakesh wrote > "We are currently using Unicode 5.1 Redirect to unicode 5.0 titled > articles in some cases. After converting both these titles become same. > Is that a problem?" > > Yes, it is ... > > cleanupTitles will resolve collisions with redirects? > > Robert > > On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Platonides <platoni...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Robert Ullmann wrote: >>> I've looked at this a bit more. There are more serious problems. >>> >>> Apparently, no-one converted the 5.0 titles in the wiki to 5.1 when >>> "normalization" was turned on; there are pages that can't be accessed. >>> (!) for example, try this (Malayalam for "fish"): >>> >>> http://ml.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%8D%E2%80%8D >>> >>> that gets normalized to 5.1, which is a redirect to the 5.0 form (in >>> this case) which is normalized back to 5.1. (there is a variation in >>> the 5.0 form too that complicates it) The content page exists (I can >>> see it in the XML dump), but can't be accessed because there is no way >>> of referring to it. >> >> >> Request on bugzilla a run of cleanupTitles.php on mlwiki. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
