On Thursday 04 July 2002 12:01 pm, Toby Bartels wrote:
There were many changes that I like, but several that were bad. Listing the latter in order of decreasing importance:
<What links here> no longer indicates what links through redirects. I think that this is a significant loss of function.
I agree -- I in fact submitted a bug report on this but it was rejected. The current 'pedia wikiware lists articles linked through redirects in a separate section and each item linked that way has "(via [[{redirect's name}]])" right next to it. I'm pretty sure Brion is the one who did this and he was prompted to do so by a feature request I made so that articles like [[Sutter's Fort]] wouldn't be counted as orphans just because it is only linked to other articles by [[Sutters Fort]].
I can understand if this feature was dropped for fat-cutting reasons in order to improve performance, but I have not received an indication that this is the reason. If the reason was to improve performance, then maybe list redirects to an article separately under a heading like "Pages that redirect here" (a good idea either way). Then maybe also have a link next to each of these redirects to "Pages that link to {redirect's name}".
--maveric149