Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Muke Tever wrote:
Sabine Cretella sabine_cretella@yahoo.it wrote:
Who contributes simply takes the words he is "moving" (working on) off the list - the admins have enough work with deleting all the re-directs (or is there a way to do this automatically) maybe modifying the page and writing "to be deleted" instead of the re-direct?
Why delete the redirects? You'll break all the old pages on the web that link to Wiktionary articles.
You'll have to think of other wikimedia sites too. For example en.wikipedia's "link to Wiktionary" template currently just uses{{PAGENAME}}, which will always be capitalized, because Wikipediacapitalizes all topics it treats.
Hoi, You delete the redirects because they are plain wrong. A word that has has both a capitalised version and a non capitalised version will be split into two versions.
It is almost never useful to delete a redirect, unless you are planning on replacing it with another page. Even en: policy says to leave them in place for things like common errors, last I checked.
The usage of wikipedia's link to Wiktionary currently does indeed use PAGENAME, how do you know that it still refers to the correct versionof the word ?? You do not ! So it needs to be changed as PAGENAME isnot good enough. It is feasible to change the PAGENAME to something elsefor instance a genuine parameter that is either capitalised or not. I thinkit would be feasible to have a bot check the occrurence of the old templateand change it for a capitalised or an uncapitalised REAL parameter. So practically all the instances of the current template need to be changed anyway.
Yes, all that is what I said: such things need to be thought of.
One other reason why you want to change the current wiktionary content is because you will not add redirects for all the new words that will be added in the future.
I stopped working on en: regularly awhile ago.
*Muke!