On 8/28/07, Jonathan Yu <jonathan.i.yu(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Perhaps this will help:
http://anonym.to/?
It's a little bit of an inconvenience to have to copy and paste links
into the address bar...
On 8/28/07, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 8/28/07, WikipediaEditor-Iamunknown
<iamunknown(a)gmail.com> wrote:
So my question is: Would it be possible to set up and host such a page on the
Wikipedia servers?
Probably. But the real question here is not whether such a thing is
possible but whether it is desirable, which is not a question which is
really within the scope of this list.
--
Stephen Bain
Jonathan: I'm not sure I understand. Are you referring to my links in
this e-mail, or to the "dereferred" links? If the former, wikilinking
is force of habit. :P If the latter, no one has to copy and paste
links into the address bar. They merely click a link, are taken to a
page which is not the actual target URL, which then redirects them
automatically to the target URL (and in the process stripping the HTTP
request of any referring URL data).
Stephen: Yes, I suppose that setting up the page would be trivially
easy ... I didn't realize that there might be objections to setting it
up. The template, Template:Derefer, has been around for more than a
year now, but it isn't widely publicized.
I guess a more relevant question than "Can you do this?" is: Under
what conditions will you [the developers] set up this page? After a
clause is proposed at Wikipedia:External_links, advertised at the
village pump, etc.?
Thanks,
--Iamunknown ( User_talk:Iamunknown )