On 17/09/13 09:34, Brian Wolff wrote:
Well I'm not particularly fond of this idea (probably because im stuck in my ways more than anything else), I do think that making the en.wikipedia.org/foo be an instant http redirect instead of "did you mean/redirecting in 5 seconds" message we currently have might make sense.
The technical situation has not changed since that meta refresh was introduced, and the same rationale still applies. See e.g.
February 2005: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/15711
August 2006: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/25605
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