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Moin,
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 16:51, Mark Williamson wrote:
"In most languages" is not true.
The majority of the world's languages do not have gender.
This includes:
Chinese
Japanese
Korean
English
...
all major languages in the world, and relatively major on Wikipedia as
well. Of these 4, only one of them has number, English.
So creating redirects for different forms of a word is not a concern
for "most" languages.
It is, however, a concern for many languages.
Anyway, I think the proposal that the current redirects are backwards,
e.g.
write article A
write redirect B pointing to A
is an interesting one. Changing the system so that you keep the list of
redirects inside (at end) article A would have the benefit that you see
them at once and can maintain them better. Currently someone reading A
doesn't (easily) see all the redirects to it.
Maybe one could write an extension:
<aka>
B
C
D
</aka>
and upon edit of the article the list of terms would be used to
create/check redirects to the article, creating B => A, C => A and D => A
if nec.
If two articles have the same article name in their synonym list, an
disambigition (sp?) page could be automatically created (with a warning
issued to the editor that the current saved article asks for a redirect
which an already existing article also has).
That would allow us to keep the current database scheme/redirect storage,
but offer editing the redirect list in one place instead of editing
dozends of small redirect stubs.
In the future one could even do away with each redirect to be it's own
article (which always seemed a bit awkward to me, you end up having to
not count these in a lot of places (redirects arent articles in the sense
of a real article, so they are no short articles, no real articles etc).
However, this would be a quite a change.
Best wishes,
Tels
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