[Wikipedia-l] Re: is it possible?

Thu Mar 27 22:08:54 UTC 2003

"Chuck Smith" skribis:

> Is it possible if someone types the name of an article
> which doesn't yet have any text that that person could
> be sent to a search page for that topic.  Thus, if I
> type http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen, instead
> of getting a page saying that this page doesn't exist,
> I would instead get the search results page?  Would
> anyone else want this?

Another option: only show additionally to the

    "There is currently no text in this page"

an

    "Search for Schengen"

link, which directs you to the search page.
So you could search with one more click, and
create the article directly (or doing nothing
at all) otherwise.

Paul