On 12/9/06, Tim Starling <tstarling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Use it wisely -- remember that a link from one page to
the middle of
another will typically be unexpected and surprising behaviour for the
reader, especially when the source link has no # in it. This feature is
Yes. We should have some guidelines or policies on how to deal with
the large numbers of terms that frequently redirect to one page. It's
ok when the redirected term appears in bold, or is the name of a
subheading. However, I'm particularly troubled by redirects where the
redirected term never appears at all, but is a vague synonym for the
article title.
regularly requested, and so I implemented it on that
basis. I'm sure there
are good applications, but some amount of common sense at the editorial
level is required.
Thanks very much for implementing this, I had been wanting it too. How
come it needed javascript?
Steve