I have implemented a "redirect to section" feature. It requires JavaScript, with the old behaviour maintained for non-JS browsers.
Use it wisely -- remember that a link from one page to the middle of another will typically be unexpected and surprising behaviour for the reader, especially when the source link has no # in it. This feature is regularly requested, and so I implemented it on that basis. I'm sure there are good applications, but some amount of common sense at the editorial level is required.
-- Tim Starling
On 12/9/06, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
Use it wisely -- remember that a link from one page to the middle of another will typically be unexpected and surprising behaviour for the reader, especially when the source link has no # in it. This feature is
Yes. We should have some guidelines or policies on how to deal with the large numbers of terms that frequently redirect to one page. It's ok when the redirected term appears in bold, or is the name of a subheading. However, I'm particularly troubled by redirects where the redirected term never appears at all, but is a vague synonym for the article title.
regularly requested, and so I implemented it on that basis. I'm sure there are good applications, but some amount of common sense at the editorial level is required.
Thanks very much for implementing this, I had been wanting it too. How come it needed javascript?
Steve
On 12/10/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks very much for implementing this, I had been wanting it too. How come it needed javascript?
Because this isn't an HTTP redirect, so you can't redirect to a URL that actually has an anchor in it. You have to have the browser jump to the appropriate location on the page some other way, i.e., JavaScript.
On 10/12/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks very much for implementing this, I had been wanting it too. How come it needed javascript?
Read the bug report; it explains most of the issues.
Rob Church
Ok, ta.
For others: it's http://bugs.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218
Steve
On 12/10/06, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/12/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks very much for implementing this, I had been wanting it too. How come it needed javascript?
Read the bug report; it explains most of the issues.
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