Link checker

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When you have a website, you need to constantly tend the garden of links you have. Links go missing unfortunately. Some tools you can use:

  1. Ht://Check An oldy but goody.
  2. LinkChecker probably the most modern and easy to use. Written in Python and code is on GitHub https://github.com/wummel/linkchecker There is a package for Ubuntu (and maybe others?)
  3. checklink is a Validator by the W3C Use it online, or download the CPAN module

Wiki link checkers[edit]

I want a "link suggester" that scans the article body, and suggests links for words and phrases in the content. Suggestions are for content found in the same wiki.  As a wiki author, I often write up a page of content that will be devoid of any links unless I am familiar with other on-wiki content - and even then I have to manually create the links. I wish there was a 'wizard' that you could invoke while in edit mode where you could just click through a series of link suggestions to add links to the page.

I'm thinking the initial step would be to analyze the content and rank keywords and phrases (leveraging CirrusSearch/CompletionSuggester no doubt) to create 10 words and phrases that should be linked. Then see if there are Title matches for those.

I discovered a tool on Toolforge that does exactly what I want - except it suggests wikidata items. Autosuggest Linking Wikidata is a Gadget. (repo on GitLab) . I should probably begin using this tool to link to Wikidata items.

See also[edit]

Linked Data