On 8/28/07, Jonathan Yu jonathan.i.yu@gmail.com wrote:
Perhaps this will help: http://anonym.to/?
It's a little bit of an inconvenience to have to copy and paste links into the address bar...
On 8/28/07, Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/28/07, WikipediaEditor-Iamunknown iamunknown@gmail.com wrote:
So my question is: Would it be possible to set up and host such a page on the Wikipedia servers?
Probably. But the real question here is not whether such a thing is possible but whether it is desirable, which is not a question which is really within the scope of this list.
-- Stephen Bain
Jonathan: I'm not sure I understand. Are you referring to my links in this e-mail, or to the "dereferred" links? If the former, wikilinking is force of habit. :P If the latter, no one has to copy and paste links into the address bar. They merely click a link, are taken to a page which is not the actual target URL, which then redirects them automatically to the target URL (and in the process stripping the HTTP request of any referring URL data).
Stephen: Yes, I suppose that setting up the page would be trivially easy ... I didn't realize that there might be objections to setting it up. The template, Template:Derefer, has been around for more than a year now, but it isn't widely publicized.
I guess a more relevant question than "Can you do this?" is: Under what conditions will you [the developers] set up this page? After a clause is proposed at Wikipedia:External_links, advertised at the village pump, etc.?
Thanks, --Iamunknown ( User_talk:Iamunknown )