https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24658
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--- Comment #1 from Bawolff bawolff...@gmail.com 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.
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