[Wikipedia-l] Re: Autofellatio

[Daniel Mayer]

--- Alfio Puglisi <puglisi at arcetri.astro.it> wrote:
> I must confess that I didn't even know that interwiki redirects were
> possible. Are they actually used for some purpose?

IIRC, that feature was created as a hack by Brion that never was polished into
a proper feature. This was during a big push to move Sep11 biographies of
non-notable people who died in that event to the Sep11wiki. Interwiki redirects
were created so as to not break links from search engines and other websites. 

-- mav

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