On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 01:16:29PM +0100, Nicolas Weeger wrote:
Hello.
I have some feature ideas, and i'm wondering what everyone would think about'em.
Note: i'm not a developer, just a (french) Wikipedia user, so don't count on me
to implement'em :)
(ok, i could maybe if i took the time to dig into the code, but people knowing
it a lot would probably need less time).
First, it would be nice to automatically change links to redirects to links to
the 'real' article during edition. This avoids having the 'redirected
from'
message on the linked article, thus giving the impression of a well-managed
encyclopedia ^_-.
If this were done it would become impossible to go to the
redirecting page,
wouldn't it? Currently there is a "&redirect=no" link in the
"redirected from"
message.
Being a well managed encyclopedia is more important than giving the impression
of being one :-) The redirection messages serve as a reminder to go back and
fix the link.
And also will avoid some issues if the redirect
becomes a
disambiguation page.
Well, editors are supposed to disambiguate links using what
links here
when creating a disambiguation page.
Second, it could be really nice if, during preview, the first lines of the
linked articles were displayed somewhere. Real often, people write links and
just check the article exists, but don't check if it's actually the article they
Yes, I've noticed this often too.
intend to link to. Displaying the first lines would
make it fast to check.
That would be useful, but might be problematic for something
like [[List of
computing topics]]! Besides where would you show the first few lines? Maybe
it could be put in a tooltip.
In the same idea, maybe detect & display links to
disambiguation pages in a
different color ?
Sounds like a good idea. But again there's the server load
problem. One solution
would be to detect newly created wikilinks and do it only for those links.
Arvind
Those could be options in preferences, for people who
don't want that behaviour.
I think those ideas would make it easier to write articles, and make correct
article interlinks.
On the other hand, they would probably increase slightly the load (on db &
server), since they require digging & displaying first lines of linked articles,
which may be numerous. But hopefully our new servers could handle that, no? :)
Nicolas 'Ryo'
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