[Ads-l] Updating Wikipedia links

[Jeff Prucher]

Other Wikipedias have this too, although fewer pages than in English. E.g.: 

https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&limit=50&offset=0&profile=default&search=%22cgi-bin%22+%22ads-l%22

(The apostrophe article shows up in this search in several languages, I don't know why.)

Jeff




 


On Thursday, November 13, 2014 8:50 AM, Bonnie Taylor-Blake <b.taylorblake at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
 

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>On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Bonnie, that's an excellent suggestion. I've been concerned about the
>> link-rot cause by the migration of the archive, and Wikipedia is
>> obviously an important place to ferret out now-dead links to posts. We
>> can systematically update these links by searching for the old
>> "cgi-bin" URLs cited by Wikipedia articles:
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>> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&limit=50&offset=0&profile=default&search=%22cgi-bin%22+%22ads-l%22
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>Wow, that's a great tool, Ben!  Thanks for sharing it.  It should make
>the work go much faster now.
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>-- Bonnie
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