https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24658
Bawolff <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #1 from Bawolff <[email protected]> 2010-08-05 04:52:23 UTC --- >It is very difficult to use this URL in Email, Blog, Chat, IRC, etc. Many of >us will be happy if we can use 'http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple' instead of >the long URL. Just as a note, many programs (not all) will accept http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/ആപ്പിൾ just fine. Modern (using an extremely loose definition of modern) browsers will convert that into the percent encoded form when entered into the address bar. As for the actual bug, I don't think this is feasible with the current interwiki system, but ignoring that, I don't think its a good idea. Redirects should be explicitly created. I would be very annoyed if page X started to redirect to page Y because someone vandalized page z. (not to mention the confusion that would cause). Also there are (I assume) some words which have totally different meanings in different languages. Thus i don't think automatic redirection would be a good idea even if it was easy to do. However, it might be interesting to have the Did you mean thing in the search page take interwikis into account. (I have no idea how feasible that would be). Cheers. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
