Talk:Web server directory index: Difference between revisions

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== Rename / move to "Web server directory index" ==

Calling a [[web server]] a "webserver" is like calling a train station a "trainstation."

Unlike "web site" vs. "website," there is [https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=webserver,web%20server no apparent trend] away from the [https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/91306/what-do-you-call-the-process-of-combining-two-words-to-create-a-new-one compound form] (two words). Also, anecdotally, drawing on 20+ years as a web server administrator, and as a native English speaker, it just sounds wrong.

There are, however, fully-protected redirects like [[index.html]], as well as some bot that adds (or used to add) a link to this article to user pages whenever new users attempted to make edits to [[Main Page]], so I can't just "fix it."

Is this a pointless endeavour, or are there automated tools to help with things like this (fixing all the double redirects, for example)? I'll be fine if someone says "don't worry about it, it's too much work for such a trifle," but thought I should ask anyway. --[[User:Ernstkm|Ernstkm]] ([[User talk:Ernstkm|talk]]) 16:53, 13 January 2021 (UTC)