User:JoePlay/note

Message to admins
Regarding the discussion in chat today about changing the wiki's project namespace without having broken links using the old namespace name:

After some of research, there does not seem to be a simple way to set up an automatic redirect from an old project namespace name to a new one, to avoid broken links that link to the old namespace. (example Yu-Gi-Oh!:About )

The least painful way that I can think of to handle this is as follows:


 * Make a list of all pages in the current project and project talk namespaces (which appears on this page thanks to DPL)
 * Use Special:WhatLinksHere to make a list of all pages that link to the pages listed on this page
 * Load all those pages into a bot and set the bot to replace  with   and replace   with

Changing the links to use "Project" and "Project talk" ensures that the links will go to the intended page regardless of what the current name is for the project namespace. Alternatively you could use  and   instead of "Project" and "Project talk".

Yu-Gi-Oh!
 namespace = Yu-Gi-Oh! 

Yu-Gi-Oh! talk
 namespace = Yu-Gi-Oh!_talk 