Author: retodon8
Description:
It is impossible for the software to see if a link points to a real article or
just a (double) redirect? If links to redirects would be a different colour, it
would cost a lot less time (and blind luck) for Wikipedians to find and fix
them. I'm assuming this would mean checking the first line of text for redirect
code, and render the link differently if you're on a page pointing there. It may
be better if this only happens for logged in Wikipedians, because differently
coloured links would be confusing for other visitors. (This would take more
processing power compared to redlinks because the actual article needs to be read.)
Thank you.
(I suggested this here earlier:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Redirect#Links_to_redirects_in_a_different_colour.3F
)
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement