https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5346
--- Comment #11 from Timeshifter <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #10) > __All__ category redirects are soft redirects, so this change will accomplish > exactly nothing. This change will effect all MediaWiki installations, not just the Wikimedia Commons. The Commons method of using soft redirects [[(commons:Template:Category redirect]] is opposed by many people, and may possibly change to hard redirects: #REDIRECT See: [[User_talk:RussBot#Hard_redirects_of_category_names]] Russbot periodically moves files from redirected categories on the Commons to the correct category. See: [[commons:User:RussBot]] R'n'B writes: "If there were a consensus to use hard redirects, the bot could handle that (with some work to adapt it)." R'n'B is talking about RussBot. That page says "This bot will periodically clean out [[commons:Category:Non-empty category redirects]] by moving the contents of redirected categories into their corresponding new categories." There really is no remaining good reason to use soft redirects on the Commons. They only confuse people. Soft redirects do not automatically transfer people to the correct link. This is confusing to people using the Commons, especially to non-native speakers of English, or those who speak no English at all. Italics for redirected category links helps facilitate the use of hard redirects which automatically transfer one to the correct link. If hard redirects are used the italics will help people realize they are trying to categorize files into nonexistent redirect categories. See my previous comment for why this is important. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
