On 15/05/06, Steve Bennett wrote:
Thanks. I gather from that the functionality to do this has been around since 2004. It was reinvented in February 2005. Any idea why it didn't make the main branch?
It seems there was problems with not linking to the image page, so image license information was not shown and they were afraid of GFDL problems. The first idea i had to solve that was to show a text similar of the redirected pages. "You've been redirected through Image:Foo. [[See Image info]]" On a reread Magnus Manske suggered so (see #18) but was forgotten. Would be any problem with that approach?
Comment #18 talks about 'images with external (or interwiki) targets' but we're not supposed of having to support it, are we? Redirect doesn't work with interwiki targets, neither.
Ok, that's not really an argument for not supporting it. A possible trick to have interwiki-redirects within wikis. Use http://xx.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ArticlePage&redirectedfrom=en:... So a referer can be set from the URL. It even allows setting the referer from links from external webs. A cleaner url would be http://xx.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArticlePage?redirectedfrom=en:Image:Article_Ico....
Note that'd like having http://xx.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArticlePage?printable=yes on the 'Printable version' link, not the dirty one (it already works). When you print the article, it usually gets the URL on the top/bottom of the page, and users would 'get' easier if we showed the easy one.
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