On 26-03-2003, Erik Moeller wrote thusly :
Is it possible if someone types the name of an article which doesn't yet have any text that that person could be sent to a search page for that topic. Thus, if I type http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen, instead of getting a page saying that this page doesn't exist, I would instead get the search results page? Would anyone else want this?
This is the behavior when you use the Go button: If the article exists, it is directly displayed, if it does not, the search results are shown.
Not exactly so. You are rather quite often redirected to a page the search mechanism thinks you want. With funny results sometimes.
So if you want to pass along URLs which work as you describe, use an URL of this pattern: http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?search=Schengen&go=Go
Regards, Kpjas.