[Wikipedia-l] Changes and suggestions (was Re: slight change to the announce-l list)

Sun Mar 30 17:08:19 UTC 2003

Brion Vibber wrote:

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>It has in the past been suggested to have a special type of redirect for
>misspellings. These could have a "you're an illiterate idiot, from now
>on please type 'X'" message display when visited or searched, but be
>hidden from lists like the Allpages list or general search results.
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>Would that be a help?
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yup :-)
#MISSPELLING [[Napoleon]]
for "Napolean", say

I also suggested non-English wikipedias might find it easier to have a 
synonym of the keyword #REDIRECT in their own language -- so on fr:, 
#REDIRECT or ... #{whatever} would work