Brion Vibber wrote:
Timwi wrote:
No, it wouldn't. _My_ point was that if we
placed a link to the page you
came from _somewhere else_ than a "redirected from" line (e.g. a list of
"pages that redirect to here" on the Edit page), you would *not* need to
send additional parameters. You could get back to the page a different
way than you do currently.
If you have to jump through a bunch of extra hoops to get to it, then
we've already lost the ability to easily get back where we came from.
A 'pages that redirect here' would be only slightly more helpful than
Whatlinkshere, as it doesn't tell you which one you actually came
through.
I'm not convinced that you need to know which one you actually came
through, especially if you have a list of all of them.
If you follow a link in an article and are redirected to a place you
didn't expect to be redirected to, then looking at a list of "articles
that redirect here" is doubly useful because you can fix other
inappropriate redirects as well, not just the one you stumbled upon.
You mentioned fighting vandalism; but you normally notice vandalism on
Recent Changes or Watchlists, where you generally follow History or Diff
links, which are unaffected by my suggestion.
[using session
variables]
That would be a) extremely unreliable, b) harmful to caching.
True. I didn't like that idea either. :)
Timwi