[Wikipedia-l] Changes and suggestions

Mon Mar 31 20:13:44 UTC 2003

Tarquin wrote:

>Brion VIBBER wrote:

>>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.
>>Would that be a help?

>yup :-)
>#MISSPELLING [[Napoleon]]
>for "Napolean", say

It's been suggested at least twice before.
I said #DEPRECATED (because it could be for more than misspellings --
old CamelCase, for example, or anything else that unneede for searches).
Somebody else said something else a while earlier than that.

>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

This is a good idea too.

-- Toby