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Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 01:10:02 +0100 Rowan Collins wrote:
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Jens Ropers wrote (to WikiEN-L):
Can I suggest we implement a "cover all" redirect, whereby ALL [[Wikipedia:Some stuff here]] kind of links can alternatively be written [[WP:Some stuff here]]?
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Not all "Wikipedia:(...)" pages have "own" their redirects (meaning redirects such as WP:SB), but it still seems like a good idea to ALWAYS allow the "Wikipedia:" bit to be abbreviated as "WP:" -- so that if I'm writing e.g. [[WP:Dispute resolution]], this would automatically redirect/be expanded to [[Wikipedia:Dispute resolution]]. Again, I'm asking whether we can do the WP: to Wikipedia: redirecting/expanding stuff on a GENERIC basis. (I know it /could/ be done on an individual article basis, but that's not my point.
And this is even more useful for namespaces with longer names, of course: Wikipedia_talk: is just a pain to type!
It would help, be really convenient and it would not get in the way of anything. Pages can still have actual own redirects such as [[WP:SB]].
Of course, if it were a real aliasing system such as I am imagining, a page "called" [[WP:SB]] would actually be called [[Wikipedia:SB]], but I don't see that that would matter much - we'd just have to move all pages called WP:xxx to Wikipedia:xxx before activating the alias (with a bot, or a database script).
We don't actually have to move anything -- it's just a matter of precedence during the URL resolution process: If the WP: to Wikipedia: conversion ONLY kicked in AFTER all other option have been tried (but before the "Wikipedia doesn't have such a page yet - do you want to create it"-screen got resorted to, then it would just work. Pity I can't code.
Thanks and regards, Jens Ropers
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