David Gerard wrote:
Alfio Puglisi (puglisi@arcetri.astro.it) [050329 01:34]:
I must confess that I didn't even know that interwiki redirects were possible. Are they actually used for some purpose?
Mark wrote:
in the case of user pages, it is sometimes a useful feature.
David wrote:
There are some en:Wikipedia: space pages that are now redirects to the equivalent on meta: . That's all I can think of.
I confess I have in the distant past used the feature for both cases you two describe. However I came to realize that the downsides outweigh the ups (even without this annoying new trend in vandalism), and strongly support turning off the feature.
Minimal "soft redirects" that say "this page is now on meta", or "please see my user page on en" are definitely to be prefered.
Pete/Pcb21 p.s. Brion has made some comments on this feature at bugzilla (850, I believe).