On 10/30/07, Simetrical Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/29/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
But anyway, my proposal seems to boil down to: "Only use redirects to find stuff, not to link to."
What would this help, again?
That was my question about 2 posts ago. The main benefits I see are these:
* Hard redirects can then be replaced by a lighter, dynamic, pattern-based system like I originally proposed, without breaking anything. * We can making linking to something work the same way as searching* for it. Currently doing a search* for "alfred deakin" magically finds its way to "Alfred Deakin", but linking to it makes a red link. Linking to "harry potter" is ok though because there's an actual rd. Searching* for the programming language under "Nice" lets you know instantly that you've made a mistake, but linking to it fails silently. All of this is easily fixed if the software helps/forces you to get your links right at the time you save them, and it can use the same rules as searching*.
Other benefits?
Steve *Searching - "typing something in the search box then pressing 'Go'."