--- Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
I am not sure the solution of this problem is to make a general call on all pedias vandalised to go vote for the image deletion.
Simple. Let's get rid of interwiki redirects altogether. They have *always* been more trouble than they are worth due to transporting readers to another wiki without any obvious way for them to know, nor any obvious way to revert the redirect.
-- mav
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Agreed. Make an interwiki redirect say "the page you want is [here]" without automatic redirection. It's needed almost never, save when trying to play with a visitor's mind.
SJ
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 06:53:47 -0800 (PST), Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com wrote:
--- Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
I am not sure the solution of this problem is to make a general call on all pedias vandalised to go vote for the image deletion.
Simple. Let's get rid of interwiki redirects altogether. They have *always* been more trouble than they are worth due to transporting readers to another wiki without any obvious way for them to know, nor any obvious way to revert the redirect.
-- mav
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On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Daniel Mayer wrote:
Simple. Let's get rid of interwiki redirects altogether. They have *always* been more trouble than they are worth due to transporting readers to another wiki without any obvious way for them to know, nor any obvious way to revert the redirect.
I must confess that I didn't even know that interwiki redirects were possible. Are they actually used for some purpose?
Alfio
It really depends on the Wikipedia.
If you go on en: to "Langue française" it is very likely you would like the French article on the topic. However, even in this case a redirect may not be suitable.
In the case of, for example, nn: and no:, and in the case of user pages, it is sometimes a useful feature.
Mark
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:34:01 +0200 (MEST), Alfio Puglisi puglisi@arcetri.astro.it wrote:
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Daniel Mayer wrote:
Simple. Let's get rid of interwiki redirects altogether. They have *always* been more trouble than they are worth due to transporting readers to another wiki without any obvious way for them to know, nor any obvious way to revert the redirect.
I must confess that I didn't even know that interwiki redirects were possible. Are they actually used for some purpose?
Alfio
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Alfio Puglisi (puglisi@arcetri.astro.it) [050329 01:34]:
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Daniel Mayer wrote:
Simple. Let's get rid of interwiki redirects altogether. They have *always* been more trouble than they are worth due to transporting readers to another wiki without any obvious way for them to know, nor any obvious way to revert the redirect.
I must confess that I didn't even know that interwiki redirects were possible. Are they actually used for some purpose?
There are some en:Wikipedia: space pages that are now redirects to the equivalent on meta: . That's all I can think of.
- d.
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).
Pete/Pcb21 wrote:
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.
I admit to my own sense of annoyance when I want to see what an otherwise unknown and perhaps questionable user is up to on Wiktionary or Wikisource, and I'm redirected to another project. I can find a workaround to see his list of edits in the project that concerns me, but it's still annoying.
I don't mind posting to his user page on the other project, but if I'm asking a question that affects Wiktionary I would prefer for his response to me to be on Wiktionary.
Ec
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