Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 01:10:02 +0100
Rowan Collins wrote:
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Jens Ropers wrote (to WikiEN-L):
Can I suggest we implement a "cover
all" redirect, whereby ALL
[[Wikipedia:Some stuff here]] kind of links can alternatively be
written [[WP:Some stuff here]]?
[snip]
Not all "Wikipedia:(...)" pages have
"own" their redirects (meaning
redirects such as WP:SB), but it still seems like a good idea to
ALWAYS
allow the "Wikipedia:" bit to be abbreviated as "WP:" -- so that if
I'm
writing e.g. [[WP:Dispute resolution]], this would automatically
redirect/be expanded to [[Wikipedia:Dispute resolution]]. Again, I'm
asking whether we can do the WP: to Wikipedia: redirecting/expanding
stuff on a GENERIC basis. (I know it /could/ be done on an individual
article basis, but that's not my point.
And this is even more useful for namespaces with longer names, of
course: Wikipedia_talk: is just a pain to type!
It would help, be really convenient and it would
not get in the way of
anything. Pages can still have actual own redirects such as [[WP:SB]].
Of course, if it were a real aliasing system such as I am imagining, a
page "called" [[WP:SB]] would actually be called [[Wikipedia:SB]], but
I don't see that that would matter much - we'd just have to move all
pages called WP:xxx to Wikipedia:xxx before activating the alias (with
a bot, or a database script).
We don't actually have to move anything -- it's just a matter of
precedence during the URL resolution process:
If the WP: to Wikipedia: conversion ONLY kicked in AFTER all other
option have been tried (but before the "Wikipedia doesn't have such a
page yet - do you want to create it"-screen got resorted to, then it
would just work.
Pity I can't code.
Thanks and regards,
Jens Ropers
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