[Wikipedia-l] Changes and suggestions (was Re: slight change to the announce-l list)

[Anthere]

--- tarquin <tarquin at planetunreal.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Brion Vibber wrote:
> 
> >  
> >
> >
> >It has in the past been suggested to have a special
> type of redirect for
> >misspellings. These could have a "you're an
> illiterate idiot, from now
> >on please type 'X'" message display when visited or
> searched, but be
> >hidden from lists like the Allpages list or general
> search results.
> >
> >Would that be a help?
> >
> yup :-)
> #MISSPELLING [[Napoleon]]
> for "Napolean", say
> 
> I also suggested non-English wikipedias might find
> it easier to have a 
> synonym of the keyword #REDIRECT in their own
> language -- so on fr:, 
> #REDIRECT or ... #{whatever} would work

Good idea Tarquin

Also, just a personnal suggestion...could [[user:xxx]]
work on any pedia (as well as the local word) ?

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