Wikipedia:Bad links
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| Bad links - A new page highlighting mangled links in Oct. 29 dump. |
| Most wanted articles - Help create the most popular "red links". Updated from Oct. 20 dump. |
| Disambiguation pages with links - Updated from the 2005-10-20 database dump with lots of work. |
| Commons:Untagged_images - Untagged images on the Commons. |
| Most visited articles - Based on page views, to be made into featured articles. |
| Shortpages - Possibly broken, possibly stubs, but definitely too short. Updated 9 Sept. |
| Templates with red links - By special request. Updated as of the Sept 9 dump. |
| Linkrot - Fix broken links to external websites. Updated from Sept. 9 dump. |
| Punctuation - Fix missing punctuation. Round 2 for Sep '05! |
| Blank pages - Updated from Sept. 9 dump. |
| Elements of Style improvement project Improve diction and style. |
| Duplicated sections - An experimental list of articles with possible duplicate sections. |
| User categorisation - Help replace unwieldy, unsorted lists with a robust categorisation system. |
| Dead-end pages - Just updated (20 Sep 2005); articles that need wikification and other help. |
| Broken categories - For your inspection, a fresh list of malformed categories. |
| Missing articles - Wikipedia is not as complete as you might think! |
| Most wanted stubs - Help add to the shortest stubs with the most links. |
| Transwiki log cleanup - Help resolve the list of articles that have been transwikied to Wikipedia's sister projects. Dictionary definitions, recipes, how-tos, etc. need to be checked for possible merging or deletion. |
| Stub sorting - Sort stubs into topical categories so editors can locate and expand stubs on subjects they are interested in. Remove stub notices attached to non-stub articles. |
| Image sleuthing - A convivial club investigating the origin and copyright and licence terms for unverified images. |
| Main - Inactive - Mini |
This report is an analysis of links (any "target" in double brackets: [[ ]]) from a database dump of the English Wikipedia. There are a number of common problems. Some problems (marked "Masked when viewing.") appear to be "fixed" when viewing the page, by the MediaWiki software. These still need to be fixed in the underlying wikicode, for easier automatic analysis of links, and in some cases, for easier human editing. Sometimes these problems are an indication of other errors in the surrounding text.
This report was last run on the 29 Oct 2005 database dump.
To update, please contact User:Beland, who has Perl scripts for this purpose.
In order to help people find this project, consider using an edit summary like the following: Bad link repair ([[Wikipedia:Bad links|You can help!]])
Bad spacing
Sometime a space appears at the beginning or end of a link because someone accidentally put it there instead of in the surrounding sentence. Please check the context of the link to see if this is the case before fixing.
- There's a double space in the link, shown as "__". (Masked when viewing.)
- There's a space (shown as "_") at the end of the link. (Masked when viewing.)
- There's a space (shown as "_") at the beginning of the link. (Masked when viewing.)
- There's a space (shown as "_") before a "#". This might be because:
- Someone tried to link to an article with a "#" in the name. The character "#" cannot appear in article names, so please choose a new title to link to. Consider using {{wrongtitle}}.
- Someone tried to link to a specific section in an article, but accidentally left an extra space before the "#". Just delete the extra space.
- There are unbalanced brackets and article text is accidentally being included in the link. You'll need to untangle the confusion.
HTTP links
This usually happens because someone has used [[ ]] when they should have used [ ]. There may also be unmatched brackets. Please check the context of the link carefully in order to fix it properly.
Encoded characters
User:Curpsbot-unicodify is now running on these, so there's no need for any human editors to tackle these yet. The bot will not fix templates, pages containing <math><nowiki>, and may skip <nowiki>– and —, so human editors may need to do some cleanup the next time this report is created. -- Beland 07:01, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
- URL-encoded characters, in the form %NN, should be converted to the actual Unicode character. (Masked when viewing.)
- HTML entities, in the form &name; or &#XXXX; should be converted to the actual Unicode character. (Masked when viewing.)
These fixes will not cause browsers to mangle these characters.
