[seqfan] Re: Updatebot on a rampage

[Alonso Del Arte]

It's not a priority right now, but eventually many of the links in the OEIS
Wiki will need to  be changed to properly correspond. For instance, today's
Sequence of the Day shows two red links for Daniel's selection for today (
A024702 <http://oeis.org/w/index.php?title=A024702&action=edit&redlink=1>).

Al

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Russ Cox <rsc at swtch.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Robert Munafo <mrob27 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Something odd is going on. Low-numbered sequences got deleted from the
> wiki
> > in a massive batch -- or perhaps I misunderstand what the wiki is
> supposed
> > to be?
>
> The http://oeis.org/wiki/ tree is for all the things that are not
> sequences.
>
> An earlier plan was to use it for sequences too, but we
> abandoned that because it was too hard to customize
> with OEIS-specific semantics.  The pages that are being
> deleted are obsolete: use http://oeis.org/A000027 instead
> of http://oeis.org/wiki/A000027.
>
> > For example, these exist:
> >
> > http://oeis.org/wiki/A061667
> > http://oeis.org/wiki/A100843
> > http://oeis.org/wiki/A127911
> >
> > but these don't:
> >
> > http://oeis.org/wiki/A000027
> > http://oeis.org/wiki/A001372
> > http://oeis.org/wiki/A000081
>
> Yes.  They'll all be gone after the weekend, but
> deleting 200,000 pages is a pretty expensive
> operation for the wiki software, so it's taking a while.
> There's nothing special about the ones that are left
> except that they are further down the list.
>
> Russ
>
>
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