https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41363
--- Comment #5 from Steven Walling <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #4) > > Also, is this a band aid? do we need to step back and think about the reason > redirects are created in the first place? Does mediawiki support the concept > of > page aliases? Does the redirected page need to continue to exist as a regular > wikipage after the redirect has happened? Yes, I think the redirected page should exist as a regular wikipage after the redirect has happened. This allows any editor to un-redirect something without needing a special form or other interface, edit the redirect easily, etc. Consider this real case from English Wikipedia: * Someone originally made "Deforestation in Brazil" a redirect to the Deforestation section in Amazon Rainforest. This isn't bad, but they're not actually aliases of each other precisely. This happens more than you'd think. * Later, someone un-redirected Deforestation in Brazil, and expanded it to be a large independent article. This was made easy by the fact that redirects are still wiki pages. Otherwise, there'd have to be new background processes to re-make a redirect as a wiki page. Part of the challenges with the current implementation, which involves using somewhat arcane markup, will be solved by VisualEditor. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
