On 17/09/13 09:34, Brian Wolff wrote:
Well I'm not particularly fond of this idea
(probably because im stuck in
my ways more than anything else), I do think that making the
en.wikipedia.org/foo be an instant http redirect instead of "did you
mean/redirecting in 5 seconds" message we currently have might make sense.
The technical situation has not changed since that meta refresh was
introduced, and the same rationale still applies. See e.g.
February 2005:
<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/15711>
August 2006:
<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/25605>
-- Tim Starling