ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ:Disambiguation pages with links

Disambiguation pages with links is a project that patrols the incoming links to disambiguation pages. These non-article pages exist to clarify and ease confusion in cases where two or more similarly named articles exist—for example, if two or more famous people have the same name. Ideally, article namespace pages should not link to disambiguation pages, except when the ambiguity of a term is being discussed (as in hatnotes mentioning that a term has other meanings); instead, links should go directly to the appropriate article. Where an article intentionally links to a disambiguation page, that link should be through a "Foo (disambiguation)" redirect, to make it clear that the link is intentional. Links from non-article namespaces are allowed, but still may need to be disambiguated. Redirects to disambiguation pages (e.g. residuals redirects to residual, which is a disambiguation page) are not considered to be within the article namespace for purposes of this guideline.

This page lists the disambiguation pages that do have incoming links, most of which need to be fixed.

How to help

1. First, please familiarize yourself with Wikipedia:Disambiguation, which describes guidelines about how and when to disambiguate. Please also review the Manual of Style for disambiguation pages.
2. Next, choose a disambiguation page to fix from the list below. Visit the disambiguation page you have selected, and familiarize yourself with the possible targets for links.
3. Click on the What links here link in the "toolbox" on the left side of the screen.
4. For each page listed, visit the page. The most important pages to fix are those in the Article and Template namespaces. User pages and "Wikipedia:" administrative pages do not necessarily need to be fixed. Please avoid editing comments on "Talk:" pages; doing so is usually inadvisable per the talk page guidelines. It's okay for redirects to point to a disambiguation page, but articles linking to these redirects need to be fixed.
5. Edit the link that goes to the disambiguation page to link to the most appropriate article listed on the disambiguation page. Be careful to avoid introducing an Easter egg link if the new target is not an obvious synonym for the displayed link.
6. To help people find this project, consider using an edit summary like the following:
   Repairing links to disambiguation pages - [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links|You can help!]]
7. Please remember: it is more important to disambiguate correctly than to disambiguate quickly. Make sure you make the best choice; if you're not sure, leave a note on the talk page and let someone who has a better understanding of the subject fix it.
8. Occasionally, links can simply be removed. Usually, a term should not be linked more than once in a single article or section. When the link refers to a meaning of the term for which there is no relevant article, but you feel that such an article would be notable and beneficial to the encyclopedia, consider creating a red link to a possible title. If the meaning is unlikely to merit enyclopedic coverage, you may wish to remove it or replace it with a link to Wiktionary, using the shortcut [[wikt:]].
9. If you fix all the main namespace links to that disambiguation page, please move it to the "Done" section.
10. Some pages gather links quickly and need to be monitored on an ongoing basis. Alternatively, you may have special knowledge or a special affection for the topic of a particular disambiguation page. For these reasons or any other, consider adopting a disambiguation page.
11. If all or most of the links refer to one meaning of the article name, it may make more sense to redirect the disambiguation page to that article and perhaps set up a disambiguation block.
12. Once you become comfortable with the disambiguation process, you may wish to read this guide to help you disambiguate more efficiently.
13. {{Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links/Userbox}} can be placed on your user page to show that you fix ambiguous links. You may also use {{Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links/Usertop}}, which will display the Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation logo in the title bar of your userpage. Using either of these adds you to ವರ್ಗ:Wikipedians who help fix disambiguation pages with links.
14. Encourage other editors active in disambiguating by awarding them a {{subst:Disambiguator's Barnstar}}.

Tools and reports

Several automated tools can be used to make disambiguation easier:

• AutoWikiBrowser is capable of mass disambiguation in semi-automatic mode. See the AWB user manual for details.
• Wikipedia Cleaner is a Java-based tool designed to aid in various maintenance tasks, including fixing ambiguous links.
• Dab solver is a web based tool which can disambiguate multiple links at once, searches for unlisted red links, and can pick the best redirect for a link.
• Solve disambiguation.py is a python bot script designed to help fix ambiguous links.
• Navigation popups can be used to fix ambiguous links with a single click if you have added the option "popupFixDabs=true;" to your javascript config file.

Toolserver reports generated by User:JaGa:

• Disambiguation pages with links - List of all disambiguation pages that are linked by articles. Updated daily.
• Disambiguation link count - Get the number of mainspace links to your favorite disambiguation page. Updated in real time.
• Articles with the most disambiguation links - List of all articles that link to multiple disambiguation pages. Updated daily.
• Disambiguation pages linked by an article - Look up all disambiguation pages linked from a single article. Updated in real time.
• Today's Dablink Report - List of all dablinks created today. Updated daily.
• Templates with disambiguation links - List of all templates that link to disambiguation pages - a quick way to identify and fix large numbers of disambiguation links with a single edit. Updated daily.

Other statistics and lists:

• The Daily Disambig, link statistics maintained by User:R'n'B, including a daily list of new disambiguation pages
• Maintenance, a list of problem pages arranged by topic, with historical statistics
• Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Dn, links which have been explicitly marked as "disambiguation needed"
• Special:Disambiguations, a special page listing links to dabs

DAB Challenge leaderboard

The Monthly DAB Challenge is a friendly competition to see who can fix the most links from the monthly list (and the bonus list) and earn a place in the Disambiguator Hall of Fame. The leaderboard shows the top twenty contributors so far this month (with a minimum 10 article-to-disambig fixes), and is updated hourly. For more information, including the full leaderboard, see the project page.

This list was last updated September 23, 10:21 UTC. Replication lag is 11 minutes.

1. BD2412		3125 fixed
2. Jeremy112233		2668 fixed
3. R'n'B		2441 fixed
4. Xezbeth		1906 fixed
5. JustAGal		1392 fixed
6. Lemnaminor		921 fixed
7. PKT		734 fixed
8. SteinbDJ		656 fixed
9. Woohookitty		578 fixed
10. JaGa		545 fixed
11. SchreiberBike		441 fixed
12. Nick Number		392 fixed
13. StAnselm		351 fixed
14. Tassedethe		252 fixed
15. Sfan00 IMG		224 fixed
16. GoingBatty		210 fixed
17. Hobbit walking party		199 fixed
18. Ulric1313		196 fixed
19. Adavidb		182 fixed
20. The Banner		178 fixed

Current disambiguation collaborations

Please feel free to add new suggestions for collaborations here.

• Templates with disambiguation links – The total count is down from about 1280 to around 1000, with 100 with 10 or more transclusions. I like this because you can "fix large numbers of disambiguation links with a single edit". –[[::User:Schmloof|Schmloof]] (talk · contribs) 04:40, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
• Articles with excessive dablinks A look at disambiguation from the point of view of articles instead of disambigs. This bot-maintained category is driven by the Articles with multiple dablinks report. When we clear down the backlog, we'll lower the threshold defining "excessive". --JaGa^talk 00:23, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
• Disambiguation pages with many incoming links For those who enjoy a challenge, you can easily find the disambigs that have had lots of incoming links for a while. --JaGa^talk 00:23, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
• ವರ್ಗ:Articles with links needing disambiguation from June 2011, the oldest dated links tagged as needing disambiguation. The total count is currently 3,222. bd2412 T 18:03, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

Status and list parameters

The list below shows the disambiguation pages in the English Wikipedia's article namespace to which there are the most links. For the purposes of this report, a disambiguation page is considered to be any article using one of the many disambiguation templates. Multiple links from a single article are counted only once. Only links from the article namespace are counted.

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