[Wikitech-l] Redirect Pages: Text on them -> Text on article

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A while ago, there was a topic on Wikitech-l that discussed "Redirect to Anchor". Noting that this is technically impossible, but also concerned without redirects such as: Blood Agar --> Agar Plate where the relevant information is tucked away very far down in the article, the following feature is requested: Current behavior of Redirects totally masks any text that comes after the #REDIRECT [[]] declaration. Feature would modify behavior, where now this extra text (provided there is text at all), is placed at the top of the article people are redirected to, perhaps, in some way, reformatted to be prominent. The earlier example cited could be rectified in this manner: - ---- #REDIRECT [[Agar plate]] '''Blood agar''' is a special type of agar plate. See [[Agar plate#Types_of_agar_plates]] - ---- The following text would be inserted at the top of the article, so: - ---- :<i>'''Blood agar''' is a special type of agar plate. See [[Agar plate#Types_of_agar_plates]]</i> An '''agar plate''' is a sterile [[Petri dish]] that... (continue main content) - ---- IMHO, I think this is an elegant way of solving the "Irrelevant Redirect" problem. I also do not think that it would be very difficult to implement (although I'm no programmer for Mediawiki, so I can't really make any statements on this). - -- Edward Z. Yang Personal: edwardzyang(a)thewritingpot.com SN:Ambush Commander Website: http://www.thewritingpot.com/ GPGKey:0x869C48DA http://www.thewritingpot.com/gpgpubkey.asc 3FA8 E9A9 7385 B691 A6FC B3CB A933 BE7D 869C 48DA