https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38962
--- Comment #7 from T. H. Kelly (Pink&) <[email protected]> --- One technical note: On your standard MW redirect, you're still "on" the redirected page, instead of on the target. I.e., if you go to [[Foo]], you're viewing the content of [[Foobar]], but the URL still reads http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo. It occcurs to me that this behavior could be rather inconvenient with Wikibase: Redirects will, inherently, be somewhat less stable than normal Q#s (since someone can always change a redirect's target), so we want to incentivize people to use the "right" Q#; also, the URL is normally the only place a non-bot user can figure out an item's Q# without having to click somewhere else. So, once a redirect system actually gets built, I think it would be best if the URL actually redirected, like with a special page. (I don't know how technically feasible this is, of course.) And then we could have, like, a &redirectfrom= URL parameter, which would generate that familiar "redirected from Q000" text. Oh, also... (In reply to comment #5) > * Diff would show all content in the entity on the left before the redirect > and > on the right something to signify the redirect (maybe #Redirect [[Q12345]]) > is > we want to stay along the lines of MW Ewww, no #REDIRECT. Wikibase already takes advantage of ContentHandler's having liberated us from unnecessary use of MediaWiki markup. I'm sure some of the devs can make us some pretty new Wikibase-type redirect content model. For diff view, it could just be "redirect-target: Q000" or something like that. (That's assuming we even want to have the pre-redirect history shown... seeing as the redirect's target should have all the data the redirect had, we *could* have it that either only deleted items can be redirected, or that redirecting an item automatically deletes its old history.) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
