Hello.
I have some feature ideas, and i'm wondering what everyone would think about'em.
Note: i'm not a developer, just a (french) Wikipedia user, so don't count on me
to implement'em :)
(ok, i could maybe if i took the time to dig into the code, but people knowing
it a lot would probably need less time).
First, it would be nice to automatically change links to redirects to links to
the 'real' article during edition. This avoids having the 'redirected from'
message on the linked article, thus giving the impression of a well-managed
encyclopedia ^_-. And also will avoid some issues if the redirect becomes a
disambiguation page.
Second, it could be really nice if, during preview, the first lines of the
linked articles were displayed somewhere. Real often, people write links and
just check the article exists, but don't check if it's actually the article they
intend to link to. Displaying the first lines would make it fast to check.
In the same idea, maybe detect & display links to disambiguation pages in a
different color ?
Those could be options in preferences, for people who don't want that behaviour.
I think those ideas would make it easier to write articles, and make correct
article interlinks.
On the other hand, they would probably increase slightly the load (on db &
server), since they require digging & displaying first lines of linked articles,
which may be numerous. But hopefully our new servers could handle that, no? :)
Nicolas 'Ryo'