Re: [Wikidata-l] Sitelinks to Redirects (was: Re: Users do understand Wikidata less than before)

2014-10-16 Thread P. Blissenbach
I agree. While redirects may be useful in the context of normal wiki pages and help pages, they are counterproductive otherwise and must not be used. Can we not permit / disallow redirects per-namespace via Wiki configuration? Purodha Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com writes: Hoi, I

Re: [Wikidata-l] Sitelinks to Redirects (was: Re: Users do understand Wikidata less than before)

2014-10-15 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I seriously fail to see how an example how Wikidata can be abused is a good thing. Redirects are imho seriously stupid. They are utterly Wikipedia centric and they introduce new things that do not exist. - a redirect page to three pages is also called an disambiguation page.. We do

[Wikidata-l] Sitelinks to Redirects (was: Re: Users do understand Wikidata less than before)

2014-10-14 Thread James Heald
Creating sitelinks to redirects: As I understand it, the classic workaround for this is to * go to client wiki, * edit the page temporarily so that it is not a redirect * add a sitelink * edit the page again to turn it back into a redirect. Thus, at least as I understand it, there is no