On 10/30/07, Simetrical <Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/29/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
But anyway, my proposal seems to boil down to:
"Only
use redirects to find stuff, not to link to."
What would this help, again?
That was my question about 2 posts ago. The main benefits I see are these:
* Hard redirects can then be replaced by
a lighter, dynamic, pattern-based system like I originally proposed,
without breaking anything.
* We can making linking to something work the same way as searching*
for it. Currently doing a search*
for "alfred
deakin" magically finds its way to "Alfred Deakin", but linking to it
makes a red link.
Linking to "harry potter" is ok though because there's an actual
rd. Searching* for the programming language under "Nice" lets you know
instantly that you've made a mistake,
but linking to it fails silently. All of this is easily fixed if the
software helps/forces you to get your links right at the time you save
them, and it can use the same rules as searching*.
Other benefits?
Steve
*Searching - "typing something in the search box then pressing 'Go'."