[Wikipedia-l] Obscuring some redirects in the search

[Brion VIBBER]

tarquin wrote:
> Brion VIBBER wrote:
>> Also there are links from external sites and personal bookmarks. Maybe 
>> nothing links Zimbabwe/History, but there's at least one link to 
>> Zimbabwe/Geography at this page:
[...]
> That is a fair point which I'd forgotten about.
> But other sites do not feel compelled to maintain old links.

I like to think we're better than other sites. ;)

> I have suggested before that instead of just "Describe the text of the 
> new page here.", we have the system run a page-title search and say:
> 
> "This page does not exist in wikipedia. Pages that match your requested 
> title include: [[History of Zimbabwe]], .... etc"

Wouldn't hurt to do that _in addition_ to keeping explicit redirects.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)