From: <kband(a)www.llamacom.com>
Yup, there are good counterarguments. The central one is that because
the main wikipedia holds the vast majority of information on the site,
most links are into the main site, no matter what section the page is
in.
Yes, so?
Note also that if the change were turned on, all
current links would
need to be automagically changed.
No, it wouldn't. I've explained this a couple of postings ago. Because we
would turn the switch that redirects links in a namespace that have no
specified namespace to the same namspace. We only need to change the page
titles and that can be done with a single SQL statement.
This is pretty wikitech, but e.g. on a user page, say there's a
link to [[mind control]]. I don't want that to default to
[[user:mind control]].
But this should be lower priority than fixing the
many, many bugs the
current software has.
We are working on that. Any bug you would like to go first?
Here's a short list.
#1 would be restoring the old wikipedia edit history, but I suspect
that won't ever happen, so:
#2
www.wikipedia.com homepage doesn't recognize a user as logged in if
you link to it from another site or type in the url; only once you go
to a
www.wikipedia.com/wiki/* page does it recognize you.
#3 Can't edit a redirected entry
#4 Edit conflict on re-direct to nonexistent page
#5 Edit conflict on using back button to edit some more
I recommend setting up a
bugzilla.wikipedia.com to make life easier.
--tc