Nikola Smolenski wrote:
A simple way to solve this could be to make
redirects function
differently
than they usually do on MediaWiki: instead of silently displaying
content of
another page under the same URL, they could simply display "Contents
of this
page has moved to [[that page]]."
It's not "silent"; there's a big fat "redirected from XYZ"
message.
Thatway, URLs would still exist and be
useful, while there would be absolutely no danger of mistaking
redirects for
canonical content.
There is already no danger of mistaking redirects for canonical content.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)
Hoi,
In an e-mail by Heiko Evermann the practice of using redirects to
indicate alternate spellings is explicitly raised as the way to go. I do
think that that is an unfortunate choise as well as it does not indicate
where the alternate spelling is comming from. It does however prove that
the assertion that the URL is not giving a meaning as to the correctness
of the spelling is manifestly wrong.
Thanks,
GerardM