On 10/29/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
However, I confess to being a bit stuck in my
brainstorming
here. To summarise the chain of reasoning so far:
* I started this thread with a suggestion for a way to augment manual
redirects with lightweight pattern-based aliases.
* Then we realised that redirects are required to make existing articles
work, not just for searching.
* Having both redirects and another system would be kludgy and complex.
* So I propose attempting to do away with almost all redirects, by making
disambiguation happen at save time,
and thus only saving real links to real, unambiguous pages.
However, this major paradigm shift will cause a lot of upheaval,
development effort etc. What are the
benefits? Is it worth it? What problem are we trying to solve exactly?
Well, that would solve this problem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Disambiguation_pages_with_links
Which is very real. I think this is a good solution. We shouldn't
think about this in terms of making disambiguation pages and redirects
easier. We should get rid of the problem completely if possible.
Judson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cohesion