Might I say, this is a great idea!
Would this be easier (technically speaking) if there were some sort
of markup to indicate the text to append? It doesn't seem necissary
except that it might help with formatting issues.
#REDIRECT [[Agar Plate]] [EXPLANATION|Blood Agar is a type of Agar
Plate...]
-RS
On 1 May 2005, at 4.49 PM, Edward Z. Yang wrote:
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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]]
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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)
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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).
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