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Contents 1 Introduction 2 Status 3 To do 4 Related 5 Participants 6 Userbox 7 Scripts and tools 8 General strategy and discussion forums 9 Stats 10 Templates 11 See also

[edit] Introduction

This project is looking at methods of transforming red links (links to articles that do not exist - like this one) into blue ones - links to articles that do exist. See Wikipedia:Red link.

It will look at all methods of transforming red links into blue ones, including but not limited to:

• Creating missing articles or redirects for which many red links exist
• Automatically suggesting alternate targets for red links
• Identifying and removing red links to topics for which no article will ever exist

In order to help people find this project, consider using an edit summary like the following: link repair ([[Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery|You can help!]])

In addition to fixing red links by altering the article in which the link appears, it is often worthwhile to make a redirect from the old target to the new target in case anyone makes the same mistake again.

[edit] Status

New reports being generated from 5th May 2009 database dump - TB (talk) 17:02, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] To do

Current lists of things to fix are:

Category	Last updated	Status	Description
Red Link Recovery Live (experimental)	2009-11-27	Live	Check all red links on a given page for suggested alternate targets
Diacritic suggestions	2009-05-06	Recently updated	Suggestions for turning red links blue by changing diacritics
Punctuation suggestions	2009-05-06	Recently updated	Suggestions for turning red links blue by altering punctuation
Pluralisation suggestions	2009-05-06	Recently updated	Suggestions for turning red links blue by making words plural
Unlikely links	2009-05-06	Recently updated	Red links to topics that are unlikely ever to exist
Capitalisation suggestions	2009-05-06	Recently updated	Suggestions for turning red links blue by changing the case of letters
Repeated letter suggestions	2009-05-06	Completed	Suggestions for turning red links blue by eliminating repeated letters
Initialisation suggestions	2009-05-06	Completed	Make red links blue by using middle names or just their initials
Numeric suggestions	2009-05-06	Completed	Turn red links blue by changing numbers to words or vice versa
Sounds-like suggestions	2007-09-08	Completed	Suggestions for turning red links blue by replacing similar sounds
Vowel transposition suggestions	2006-07-28	Completed	Turn red links blue by transposing vowel combinations

[edit] Related

• Most red links - Articles containing the greatest number of red links. Updated 5th July 2007
• Wikipedia:Most wanted articles - The most common targets of red links. Updated most recently from 2007-09-08 database dump.
• Category:Red list
• Wikipedia:Templates with red links - Red links in templates are likely to represent red links in many articles.
• Wikipedia:Requested articles
• Wikipedia:Dead external links - A project of similar scope, but for external links as opposed to internal links
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Database analysis

[edit] Participants

The list of past and present participants in this project can be found here. Add your name to the list if you consider reducing the number of red links in Wikipedia a useful task.

[edit] Userbox

I've made this userbox. Feel free to use it!
{{User:JackSparrow Ninja/Userboxes/User Redlinkrecoveryteam}}

[edit] Scripts and tools

• The exception list - this is a list of previous suggestions that project members have marked up as incorrect. Suggestions on the list won't be made again.
• The script used to generate lists of suggested corrections for red links
• Random additional SQL scraps used in/by this project.
• Hint: Where there is a suggestion, and it's hard to spot because the relevant page has lots of Red Links, try using Find in this page (from the Edit menu in your browser or by pressing ctrl F) to find a keyword. thisisace 22:21, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] General strategy and discussion forums

• /General
• /Strategy
• /FAQ

[edit] Stats

Interation	Started	Ended	Suggestions	Red links fixed	False positives	Accuracy
1	July 2005	May 2006	~60000	~52000	~5000	90.0%
2	May 2006	May 2007	~85000	~77000	~7900	90.7%
3	June 2007	May 2008	~142000	~112000 [1]	~10000	91.8%
4	July 2008	May 2009	~63500	~61000	~2580 [2]	95.4% [2]
5	May 2009	Ongoing	~63400			-

¹  Just over 20,000 links left unhandled. The lists were too long, volunteers suffered fatigue

²  These figures seem wrong; I suspect I lost around 2000 exceptions. Sorry.

[edit] Templates

• Template:WikiProject Red Link Recovery/List handling instructions
• Template:WikiProject Red Link Recovery/List handling instructions (non-suggestion)

[edit] See also

• Wikipedia:Bad links