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Hi – I have hundreds of NSF-funded uniquely-designed instructional physics modules on the web at PHYSNET.ORG and there are apparently 136 or so links to those modules in Wikipedia articles by various authors unrelated to me. A few days ago I was required to move the modules to a different server. Seeing that people were writing links like 35.9.69.219/HOME/MODULES/PDF_MODULES/M114.PDF, I took the opportunity to make the links independent of the server by using the domain name, so the links in the Wikipedia articles should now be like PHYSNET.ORG/MODULES/PDFMODULES/M114.PDF. Notice that I also took out the underline, which may be mistaken for a space when an entire link is underlined, and I removed the unused intermediate folder HOME. The problem is that the module links in Wikipedia articles are now broken. I could change the links in other peoples’ stuff, one-by-one, probably making errors, or, hopefully, someone has the capability to update them all programatically in one crack. If so, I would be very grateful! Signell (talk) 02:31, 1 February 2008 (UTC)