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)