Author: ezyang
Description:
A while ago, there was a topic on Wikitech-l that discussed "Redirect to
Anchor". Noting that this is technically impossible, but also concerned without
redirects such as:
Blood Agar --> Agar Plate
where the relevant information is tucked away very far down in the article, the
following feature is requested:
Current behavior of Redirects totally masks any text that comes after the
#REDIRECT [[]] declaration. Feature would modify behavior, where now this extra
text (provided there is text at all), is placed at the top of the article people
are redirected to, perhaps, in some way, reformatted to be prominent.
The earlier example cited could be rectified in this manner:
#REDIRECT [[Agar plate]] '''Blood agar''' is a special type of agar plate. See [[Agar plate#Types_of_agar_plates]]
The following text would be inserted at the top of the article, so:
:<i>'''Blood agar''' is a special type of agar plate. See [[Agar plate#Types_of_agar_plates]]</i> An '''agar plate''' is a sterile [[Petri dish]] that... (continue main content)
IMHO, I think this is an elegant way of solving the "Irrelevant Redirect"
problem. I also do not think that it would be very difficult to implement
(although I'm no programmer for Mediawiki, so I can't really make any statements
on this).
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement