[Wikipedia-l] Interwiki redirects disabled

[Mark Williamson]

Arwel: It's a good idea. Do you already have it enabled in Welsh
though (ie bilingual), or are they all in English currently?

I think that would massively cut down on the amount of redirect vandalism.

Similarly, if the interface of aa.wikipedia were actually in Afar,
people would stop using it for their stupid tests.

Speaking of which, a lot of people who make new pages on inactive
Wikipedias seem to have typed the URL wrong. For example, if somebody
meant to go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzlapaapa, they might
accidentally go to http://dz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzlapaapa and then not
realise they're actually at the Druk Yul (dragon language) Wikipedia.

Mark

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:40:03 +0100, Arwel Parry
<arwel at cartref.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> David Gerard wrote:
> 
> >Arwel Parry (arwel at cartref.demon.co.uk) [050331 00:59]:
> >
> >
> >
> >>Just in time! We had a massive page-move vandal attack on cy:wikipedia
> >>between 0203 and 0232 UTC this morning, when users cy:Defnyddiwr:SPUI
> >>and cy:Defnyddiwr:OldakQuill managed to screw up a considerable number
> >>of pages - moving them, then deleting and recreating original  page
> >>names with redirects to en:Image:Autofellatio_2.jpg
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >By the way, I've put up what appears to be the first ever mirror site for
> >cy: Wikipedia: http://factsite.co.uk/cy/ . I plan to mirror all the British
> >native languages. Currently having fun wrestling with the en: SQL dump ...
> >
> >
> >- d.
> >
> >
> >
> Nice! :)  By the way, it's Wicipedia Cymraeg, not Cymraeg Wicipedia -
> the subject comes before any qualifiers.
> 
> After spending five hours straightening out cy.wikipedia today, Deb and
> I were wondering if it would be worthwhile / possible to remove the
> #redirect command in English, so that potential non-Welsh-speaking
> vandals would at least have to learn what the Welsh for "redirect"
> actually is before they try to screw up the database.
> 
> --
> Arwel Parry
> http://www.cartref.demon.co.uk/
> 
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