[WikiEN-l] "refactoring" signatures

Steve Bennett stevagewp at gmail.com
Sat Jun 17 17:45:54 UTC 2006


On 6/17/06, Wildrick Steele <wildrick.steele at gmail.com> wrote:
> Redirects are really a Wikipedia thing, and cause much disagreement over on
> Wiktionary. A dictionary isn't fit to redirect the user to a different page,
> when they only need to know what the word they entered exactly means.

Hmm. A redirect is the electronic equivalent of "See xxx". There's
nothing un-dictionary-like about "Variant spelling of xxx, see xxx".

But hey, Wiktionary can fight its own battles...

Steve



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