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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, with rare exceptions in which the ambiguity of a term is being discussed; instead, links should go directly to the appropriate article. Links from non-article namespaces are allowed, but still may need to be disambiguated.

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

Contents 1 How to help 2 Tools and reports 3 DAB Challenge leaderboard 4 Current disambiguation collaborations 5 Status and list parameters 6 September 2009 6.1 Progress 6.2 To do 6.3 Done

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. Change the link that goes to the disambiguation page to a link to the most appropriate article listed on the disambiguation page. The most important links to fix are those from articles 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 pointing to these redirects need to be fixed.
5. 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!]]
6. 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.
7. 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:]].
8. If you fix all the main namespace links to that disambiguation page, please move it to the "Done" section.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. Once you become comfortable with the disambiguation process, you may wish to read this guide to help you disambiguate more efficiently.
12. {{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 Category:Wikipedians who help fix disambiguation pages with links.

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.
• 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 monobook.js (or a similar file for other skins).

There are also several 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.
• 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. 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.

Purge page cache

1. Woohookitty		4793 fixed
2. J04n		4565 fixed
3. RussBot		3651 fixed
4. Grafen		2538 fixed
5. Ulric1313		1694 fixed
6. Fratrep		1217 fixed
7. BD2412		1004 fixed
8. JamesAM		718 fixed
9. Alansohn		561 fixed
10. JaGa		554 fixed
11. M-le-mot-dit		497 fixed
12. DarknessBot		436 fixed
13. SteinbDJ		328 fixed
14. Skittleys		315 fixed
15. Ospalh		270 fixed
16. Fortdj33		250 fixed
17. Dekimasu		158 fixed
18. HeartofaDog		108 fixed
19. Nick Ottery		101 fixed
20. Gonzonoir		98 fixed

Current disambiguation collaborations

Please feel free to add new suggestions for collaborations here.

• Category links: I've updated the list of categories with ambiguous links using the data that Russ puts up every once in a while. I think this is worth a cleanup run, since we haven't finished a categories run in about two years. There are about 1600 ambiguous links at the moment. If you fix the links on a category page, simply delete the entry from the list. A certain percentage of the links are intentional and can be safely ignored; please move them to the section at the bottom of the page so other editors will know to skip them. Since there are only a few links to check for any given category page (it's broad and shallow), and we haven't had many collaborations up lately, this seems to me like an ideal topic. Dekimasuよ! 04:29, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
  • Note: an intentional link to a disambiguation page named "page foo", should be piped through a redirect to "page foo (disambiguation)" so that these can easily be dismissed in future searches. bd2412 T 21:55, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
• Cantonese has 1863 reportedly about 500 622 links as of September 14. In case anyone is wondering how it got where it is (I had to go through deletion logs to find out), the article that used to be at that location was moved to Yue Chinese following an informal discussion now located at Talk:Yue Chinese, and the disambiguation page was moved from Cantonese (disambiguation) to the plain title. I'm not sure, however, if there's any way to tell which links should point at Yue Chinese and which should point at Standard Cantonese (or Taishanese). Hoping for suggestions on how to proceed here. Dekimasuよ! 09:16, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Status and list parameters

Archived reports
2005: October, December 2006: March, May, July, September, November 2007: February, May, August, October 2008: March, July 2009: February, May, June, July, August

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.

The current list was generated from the toolserver report on September 1, 2009. Previous reports from the toolserver and database dumps are archived in the box to the right.

September 2009

Progress

From the top 250 disambiguation pages as of September 1, 2009, out of a total of 33,561 links, approximately 24,712 have currently been fixed.

PLEASE READ BEFORE MAKING ANY EDITS: Kindly do not edit anything between the start of the line and the character string "|links]]". You may insert any additional information after this point. When an item is finished, please cut and paste it, without revision, to the end of the "Done" section. Thank you.

The link counts reflect the number of links from main namespace articles as of the toolserver report date shown above. They are unlikely to be accurate at any later date; however, we keep the original count intact as a way of tracking our progress. Please do not change the link totals!

To do

1. Informatics: 190 links About 60 left as of September 12.
2. Homogeneity: 170 links
3. Kamboja: 159 links Went up again last month.
4. Model: 154 links
5. Constant: 151 links
6. Devotion: 150 links
7. Connection: 149 links Has been on every list since September 2006.
8. Equilibrium: 147 links
9. Heritage: 146 links
10. Transition: 145 links
11. Visualization: 142 links
12. Islamic Jihad: 141 links
13. State: 136 links About 40 left as of September 7.
14. Underground culture: 136 links
15. Laurel: 135 links
16. Deformation: 134 links
17. Vesicle: 132 links
18. Rule: 132 links
19. Afro-Caribbean: 131 links
20. Efficiency: 129 links
21. Control: 129 links
22. Church of God: 128 links
23. Dynamics: 128 links
24. Warbler: 127 links
25. Locus: 127 links
26. Antiquity: 126 links
27. Signal: 126 links
28. Extinction coefficient: 124 links
29. Medium: 124 links About 30 left as of September 15.
30. Event: 124 links
31. Ministry of Education: 124 links About 30 links left as of September 10.
32. Tonic: 123 links About 40 left as of September 24.
33. Imperial: 123 links
34. Circuit: 122 links About 40 left as of September 24.
35. Proof: 122 links
36. Transaction: 122 links About 20 left as of September 24.
37. Cruciate ligament: 122 links
38. Electoral Commission: 122 links About 50 left as of September 12.
39. Module: 121 links
40. Heavy rail: 121 links
41. Lifetime: 121 links Under 30 left as of September 22.
42. Storage: 121 links
43. Rocket launcher: 121 links About 50 left as of September 12.
44. Extension: 121 links
45. Apex: 120 links
46. Reliability: 120 links
47. Technical: 120 links
48. Imaging: 120 links
49. Pageant: 120 links About 30 left as of September 14.
50. Threshold: 120 links
51. Chancery: 120 links
52. Text: 120 links
53. Minnow: 119 links
54. Tonawanda, New York: 119 links
55. Differential: 119 links
56. Test: 118 links
57. Processor: 117 links
58. Matrix: 117 links
59. Punjab University: 117 links
60. Domain: 117 links
61. East Los Angeles: 117 links
62. East Hampton, New York: 117 links—merged into East Hampton, approx 142 links now
63. Grand Prix: 115 links
64. Status: 115 links
65. Supply: 115 links

Done

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