Fix broken redirects, add script to check

WardBrian commented 7 months ago

Submission Checklist

[x] Builds locally
[x] New functions marked with `r since("VERSION")`
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Summary

This fixes all remaining broken 'click here for the new version' links. I wrote a small Python script which checks these, which I also added here.

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mitzimorris commented 7 months ago

link-checking script is great.

how did figure out and apply the mapping from old to new filenames?

WardBrian commented 7 months ago

how did figure out and apply the mapping from old to new filenames?

A mix - some I recognized immediately (like the binomial_log deprecation page), some I did a string search of a snippet on the old page until I found where that content lived now.

A few pages had been actually fully removed or moved from one manual to another, so I had to make a judgement call about the most relevant link, but those were rare.

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