I agree, the problem isn't that there's a # symbol in the URL, but
that there is no Wikipedia page for that (and only that) album. AR:d
Wikipedia links should, in my opinion, by more reliable than this so
that, for example, automated Wikipedia cross-checking (release
date-mismatch etc) and content
As we usually don't like redirects, I think that this doesn't change
anything in this discussion.
Bram
david scotson schreef:
> I'm not sure how this would be communicated to less sophisticated
> Musicbrainz/Wikipedia users but the following is possible:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_The_C
I'm not sure how this would be communicated to less sophisticated
Musicbrainz/Wikipedia users but the following is possible:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_The_City_%2B_In_The_Woods
has just been created by me, and consists only of a redirect to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_Bonham#In_The
The consensus seems this far that we should not link to anchors within
pages.
To best understand this, I guess my only question I have is, what
balance are we trying to strike between preventing link rot and
providing useful information?
As I mentioned in the edit that started this, sometimes a t
This disussion is pretty lame and I think we all agree anyway: we
don't want to link albums to wikipedia:Artist#Album. If it doesn't
have a Wikipedia page of its own just don't link it (add an annotation
if you must). Unless someone is actually of the opinion that we should
there's no need to discu
On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 3:57 AM, Bogdan Butnaru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 4:11 AM, Brian Schweitzer
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm very aware what fragments are, and how they work, though I wasn't
> > aware that the CGI-parser behind Wikipedia's permalink system
On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 4:11 AM, Brian Schweitzer
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm very aware what fragments are, and how they work, though I wasn't
> aware that the CGI-parser behind Wikipedia's permalink system
> maintained fragment support.
I'm not sure you do understand it completely. Wikipe
> I think you just don't understand what fragments are.
> Here's your "permalink" for the URI with the fragment part:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tracy_Bonham&oldid=194084452#In_The_City_.2B_In_The_Woods
>
>
> Anyhow, this is entirely off-topic.
I'm very aware what fragments
2008/3/9, Brian Schweitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> I would agree with all three observations, while adding this:
>
> Theoretically - we don't currently enforce it, nor often do it - but
> Wikipedia links ought to use the perma-links
Why would we do that?
If I understand correctly, the so-called
On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Olivier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there anything in the documentation discouraging the use of Wacky
> urls pointing to in-page anchors?
> eg: like
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_Bonham#In_The_City_.2B_In_The_Woods
>
> If not, what do you think about t
Is there anything in the documentation discouraging the use of Wacky
urls pointing to in-page anchors?
eg: like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_Bonham#In_The_City_.2B_In_The_Woods
If not, what do you think about their use?
IMHO, we should prevent their use (and state so in the docs), for the
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