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===Cleanup=== | ===Cleanup=== | ||
* Delete redirects from [[:Category:Temporary Redirect]] as needed | * Delete redirects from [[:Category:Temporary Redirect]] as needed | ||
* Check external links: A program called [http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html Xenu] can be installed to automatically check external links on the whole website. View this short [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfMq4lQnCoc 30 second video] to see how it works. It can be used to scan only one page, or the whole WikiIslam website. URL patterns can be excluded or included. It will show which URL's are not working and it will also show the pages where the broken URLs were found. | * Check external links: A program called [http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html Xenu] can be installed to automatically check external links on the whole website. View this short [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfMq4lQnCoc 30 second video] to see how it works. It can be used to scan only one page, or the whole WikiIslam website. URL patterns can be excluded or included. It will show which URL's are not working and it will also show the pages where the broken URLs were found. | ||
**Tips for using Xenu: | |||
***To scan only a certain page on your site and stop Xenu from scanning all the pages on your site, exclude these two URLs: http://wikiislam.net, and http://www.wikiislam.net | |||
***Under View, Click "Show only broken URL's" | |||
***Report: You can click "Yes" at the end when it asks to generate a report. The report may or may not be useful. If you clicked No, it can also be accessed in the menu 'File -> Report' | |||
***For each broken URL, right click and choose "Copy URL" and then "Open in Browser". | |||
***Verify and delete/replace links: Reported broken links should be manually verified for many reasons: | |||
****Sometimes the website has the content but has a new page. If its a 404 (not found), check the root of the website (visit www.mywebsite.com, instead of mywebsite.com/broken_article.htm) to see if the website is still working. If yes do a Google search to find the content. Use site summaries or content to find the page. If its not found, it may have been deleted. | |||
****Sometimes a website may be blocking Xenu (thinking its some kind of spam bot) and Xenu will report it as 'blocked' or similar. Manually verifying the link will tell you if the link actually works or not. | |||
*** If you are scanning multiple pages on the site or the whole website (our website, not external sites), you can see where the broken URL appears by right clicking on the broken URL and choosing 'Properties'. The last entry for the URL will show you the page where the broken URL was found. | |||
***It is possible that the DDOS protection for Wikiislam may block Xenu. If that happens, wait for some time and adjust the concurrent URL's to be only 1 or 2 and see if you can make other adjustments to slow down the scanning. | |||
====System Generated Reports==== | ====System Generated Reports==== | ||