On 17/09/13 09:34, Brian Wolff wrote:
> Well I'm not particularly fond of this idea (probably because im stuck in
> my ways more than anything else), I do think that making the
> en.wikipedia.org/foo be an instant http redirect instead of "did you
> mean/redirecting in 5 seconds" message we currently have might make sense.

The technical situation has not changed since that meta refresh was
introduced, and the same rationale still applies. See e.g.

February 2005:
<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/15711>

August 2006:
<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/25605>

-- Tim Starling


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