On 4/17/05, Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
From what I can see, inter-wiki redirects have been disabled. For example, http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/User_talk:Timwi no longer redirects you to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Timwi but instead displays the redirection as a big link. I would imagine the rationale being that this makes the redirects easier to edit.
Ah, I hadn't realised that. I remember hearing that prefixes not marked as "internal" were no longer valid for redirections, but it seems you are right that they've all been disabled (unless there's just some bug somewhere). They've always been kind of controversial, but I think there may be justifiable uses, for which a from= parameter system would end up making sense. Maybe not; maybe a more traditional "See also:" is good enough...