[WikiEN-l] Moving the Main Page (sic)

[Luna]

On 1/13/07, PeruvianLlama <peruvianllama at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Its more an issue of the external links
> Just a thought on this, but assuming that the move were
> community-approved then would it be possible to do a sort of
> "hard-redirect" where http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (or
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?Main_Page if you like) would
> automatically shunt any incoming traffic to the new page? Isn't there
> something in Apache, a 500-level code maybe that a server gives to
> clients to indicate a permanent redirect so that the incoming link can
> be updated? If this was the case, and since everyone agrees that moving
> Main_Page is not an immediate concern but rather a long-term issue (or
> not an issue at all), then Main_Page could exist for the next six months
> or year as an un-editable "hard-redirect", to give the world's links
> time to be updated. Then after that, once the epic novel "Main Page" has
> been written and achieved verifiable notability, we can un-hard-link the
> Main_Page article and editing could begin.



Right. But since we're obviously going to need such a redirect, what do we
gain from moving Main Page? It's a lot of work for...?

-Luna