I know for the longest time we’ve had bots come and remove links linking to stubbed articles from unstubbed ones. However, do we have a bot or a script that lets us find pages once we’ve produced some bold edits to destub these articles and link them back?
Last night, I ended up merging in some really great advice to an article that was recently stubbed (8/31/2020) to a point where I thought I’d be able to destub it. However, knowing this specific article was used internally on the site (but don’t remember which articles), I wouldn’t know where to find a page that lists all the places they once were in so I can get that article weaved to be shown to others.
Unless someone knows of a script already showing those that were originally there before the removal of the links were involved, I’d like to suggest creating either a script page or bot that will come and bring back those links into where they were before (I’ve even come up with a very creative name: “Relink Bot”)
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JayneG
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I will check to see if I can find any information about this over the next couple of days and let you know what I find, @EpcotMagic
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JayneG
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So I checked in about this. We don’t have a bot or script that can do this, and at this stage, it’s not a feature that’s likely to be created for a range of technical reasons (for example, the timeframe between when something is stubbed/unstubbed could potentially be so long we’d have to purse an unmanageable number of logs to be able to add them back in). But, of course, if there are articles that people know of, it’s totally fine to manually add them back in.
I will keep this on my rainy day list for the future though, because you never know when someone might be looking for a project like this to work on.
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