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Method for finding references to pages that do not exist
Is there a way to find which pages that reference non-existent pages? If not, adding that would be really useful. When I'm creating or editing a page, I'll frequently put [[ ]] around text that should have a page to describe it. Since I'm not focused on the other topic at the moment, I often do not create the page at that time, so I end up with broken links scattered through the wiki. A simple way to find them would be great.
There does appear to be one complicated way to do it. Download the exported zip file, unzip it and then search for /new. Most of the hits will probably be links to missing pages, so then you just need to back up a little bit in the XML to find the page containing it. However, this is hardly a simple process.
There does appear to be one complicated way to do it. Download the exported zip file, unzip it and then search for /new. Most of the hits will probably be links to missing pages, so then you just need to back up a little bit in the XML to find the page containing it. However, this is hardly a simple process.
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site:http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/CampaignName/ "create-wiki-page-link"
for example: "http://www.google.com/search?q=site:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.obsidianportal.com%2Fcampaign%2Fgrailand-tides-of-war%2F+%22create-wiki-page-link%22":http://www.google.com/search?q=site:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.obsidianportal.com%2Fcampaign%2Fgrailand-tides-of-war%2F+%22create-wiki-page-link%22
create-wiki-page-link is the style that is placed on the links that haven't been created yet.
Some caveats - it will only work on public campaigns and only on info thst isn't GM only (or GM-player only) since those won't be available to google's page crawler. But it's a lot better than nothing :)