Fixng double redirects (was: Re: [WikiEN-l] acronym sweep needed)

Wed Feb 8 22:59:39 UTC 2006

On 2/8/06, Steve Bennett <stevage at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/8/06, SPUI <drspui at gmail.com> wrote:
> > How is it tedious and painful? You look at the "what links here" list,
> > search the page for (redirect), and edit all of 10 pages.
>
> This was as efficient as I could get it:
>
> 1. Click what links here.
> 2. Choose a double redirect.
> 3. Click link to open in new tab
> 4. Click edit
> 5. Right click > Mozex > Edit text area
> 6. Search for "cockerel" (most of them were that)
> 7. Replace with [[Rooster|cockerel]]
> 8. Save/close
> 9. Click edit box
> 10. Paste edit summary
> 11. Save
> 12. Close tab
> 13. Go to step 2.
>
> Tedious. Especially when computers were designed to do this sort of
> thing for us, not the other way around. Some people thrive on this
> sort of menial task - not me.
>
> And I suspect a lot of users would be doing this without mozex, would
> retype the edit summary each time, and wouldn't think of opening the
> links in new tabs each time. Even more painful!

Quicker with, dare I say it, Lupin's pop-ups.  I'm not sure they can
do more than one a page, though.

--
Sam