Magnus Manske wrote:
Frankly, I don't see what the "(Ultimate) Wiktionary redirect problem" is all about. You want to keep old links working, but not use #REDIRECTs for bad spelling?
Why not introduce #MISPEELING ? (or a variant ;-)
That would function like a redirect, with the exception that the destination page will, additonally, say on the very first line "You looked for the word or phrase WRONSPELLING. We believe you might mean GOODSPELLING (this page), of which WRONGSPELLING is a misspelled form."
Am I missing some intricate problem here?
Magnus
Hoi, I am afraid you miss the point. At issue is the big muddle that are the current en.wiktionary redirects. Where you can find technical redirects and the redirects because of an implied meaning (linkt to correct spelling, link to a headword etc)
The Ultimate Wiktionary will not have redirects the reason being that it starts from nothing and all removals will be done as per the policies of the project. This is true for any project anyway. Articles are removed when this is decided upon.
Thanks, Gerard