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?
Chuck
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On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, [iso-8859-1] Chuck Smith wrote:
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?
Already proposed, not yet implemented:
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty_page_page
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
When typing this page, you recieve like result:
(There is currently no text in this page)
So, you can edit it and include text.
If your goal relating this page is look for another pages related with schengen ( this is, search topic related pages ), it´s very interesting the system would include automatically the text "schengen" in the search box, so you only have to click in the search button.
This would be a very interesting and usefull utility.
Regards.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Brion Vibber" vibber@aludra.usc.edu To: wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 11:49 PM Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] is it possible?
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, [iso-8859-1] Chuck Smith wrote:
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?
Already proposed, not yet implemented:
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty_page_page
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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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. 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
with Schengen replaced by the article title.
Regards,
Erik
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.
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Chuck Smith wrote:
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?
I would not like it. I use this method (creating the URL of the page by hand) sometimes when I want to create a page and there are no links to it, or I am not sure.
Andre Engels
"Chuck Smith" skribis:
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?
Another option: only show additionally to the
"There is currently no text in this page"
an
"Search for Schengen"
link, which directs you to the search page. So you could search with one more click, and create the article directly (or doing nothing at all) otherwise.
Paul
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 14:08, Paul Ebermann wrote:
"Chuck Smith" skribis:
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?
Another option: only show additionally to the
So, did anyone read the old discussion from http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty_page_page ?
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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