Brion Vibber wrote:
Nikola Smolenski wrote:
A simple way to solve this could be to make redirects function differently than they usually do on MediaWiki: instead of silently displaying content of another page under the same URL, they could simply display "Contents of this page has moved to [[that page]]."
It's not "silent"; there's a big fat "redirected from XYZ" message.
Thatway, URLs would still exist and be useful, while there would be absolutely no danger of mistaking redirects for canonical content.
There is already no danger of mistaking redirects for canonical content.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Hoi, In an e-mail by Heiko Evermann the practice of using redirects to indicate alternate spellings is explicitly raised as the way to go. I do think that that is an unfortunate choise as well as it does not indicate where the alternate spelling is comming from. It does however prove that the assertion that the URL is not giving a meaning as to the correctness of the spelling is manifestly wrong. Thanks, GerardM