Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Oregon/Redlinks list

maintenance

How was this list created? The article history begins with Aboutmovies "mining" some lists. How were they created? Is it time for an update? —EncMstr (talk) 16:53, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Yes it probably is about time for an update. There were (actually they still exist, but essentially blanked, each is linked at the top of the page) 8 pages from a bot run that generated a list of all red links in WPOR tagged articles. Some of us then went through the lists over about a month and fixed those that were either typos, had an alternately named blue link, had doubtful ability to turn blue, or in some instances just standardized several red links into one. After that, I then went through and found all the remaining articles that had a minimum of three incoming links from WPOR (minus template generated ones) and placed them on this page. I'm sure we can have User:Dycedarg do another run, if he/she is still active. This time though, I think the bot should only list incoming WPOR linked articles (that was an option last time but I thought why not see all of them), and maybe have a way for it to screen out the template generated red links. This later one was a big reason why the dump was so big, the hospital, state parks/protected areas, and a few other templates created really long entries for some red links. For the original dump, see the history of Wikipedia:WikiProject Oregon/redlinks, but warning it never loaded properly for me as too big, I think I worked around it by manipulating the URL to go straight to edit mode, but its been a year so I'm not sure if that was how I did it or not. Aboutmovies (talk) 19:58, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

FYI, it looks like we worked through ~108 from this list over about a year. Not bad. Aboutmovies (talk) 20:02, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Note, I asked tedder about having his bot update this a while back. Sounds like he is willing, we just need to clarify what we want the script to do. Valfontis (talk) 22:55, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

Done. Jsayre64 (talk) 23:05, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

Some more context from the original bot request.

To improve on the original bot, which created some long lists, like this, it might be nice if, when there are fewer than about 4 links to the redlink, that entry would not appear. I guess you'd have to find them all first, and then go back and cull. --Esprqii (talk) 23:15, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

Revival

I was trying to do something similar with AWB for a personal redlink drive but I don't think I can pull it off. Since we're all so busy with real life, is there someplace we can put in a request to run a list again? Valfontis (talk) 17:42, 6 November 2015 (UTC)