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Title: Interwiki redirect
Post by: Greenpickle on February 27, 2011, 11:51:07 AM

Anyone come across a way of doing this?  Redirecting a page via an interwiki link?  See here (http://www.pikminwiki.com/Talk:Steve); apparently it's possible, since it's done here (http://info.sonicretro.org/index.php?title=RNC&action=edit), but I guess they've made some server-side modifications or something.

Title: Re: Interwiki redirect
Post by: Greenpickle on February 27, 2011, 09:01:29 PM

Assuming you meant to use [[ ]] in the redirect code, no, it doesn't work.  I tried the 'forward' ('local') argument before, as mentioned on the linked talk page, and, as expected, 'trans' doesn't do anything for redirects.

Title: Re: Interwiki redirect
Post by: Miles of SmashWiki on February 27, 2011, 10:07:04 PM

I've seen it done, but shouldn't one use a soft redirect for that anyways?  It's kinda weird to click an in-wiki link and end up elsewhere.

Title: Re: Interwiki redirect
Post by: tacopill on February 27, 2011, 10:14:23 PM

It's possible. Set "Foward" to yes or true, for the specific interwiki code and then use the code for the redirect link.

Code: [Select]

#REDIRECT [[code:page name]]


The problem, as talked about in this thread (http://www.niwanetwork.org/forums/index.php?topic=713), it fills up the double-redirect list.

Title: Re: Interwiki redirect
Post by: Greenpickle on February 27, 2011, 10:37:56 PM

Quote from: Miles of SmashWiki on February 27, 2011, 10:07:04 PM

I've seen it done, but shouldn't one use a soft redirect for that anyways?  It's kinda weird to click an in-wiki link and end up elsewhere.

Yeah, I made that point on the talk page.  This is also partly out of curiosity; It's not a decided-upon thing that it'll be a redirect, I don't think.

Quote from: tacopill on February 27, 2011, 10:14:23 PM

It's possible. Set "Foward" to yes or true, for the specific interwiki code and then use the code for the redirect link.

Code: [Select]

#REDIRECT [[code:page name]]


That's exactly what I was saying I tried in my post replying to a post that seems to have disappeared.  I guess you've lost the context in not having seen that post...

Title: Re: Interwiki redirect
Post by: tacopill on February 28, 2011, 01:25:41 AM

Quote from: Greenpickle on February 27, 2011, 10:37:56 PM

Quote from: tacopill on February 27, 2011, 10:14:23 PM

It's possible. Set "Foward" to yes or true, for the specific interwiki code and then use the code for the redirect link.

Code: [Select]

#REDIRECT [[code:page name]]


That's exactly what I was saying I tried in my post replying to a post that seems to have disappeared.  I guess you've lost the context in not having seen that post...

This is true... i am lost. But still trying to be helpful, despite it.....

Also, out of curiosity, did you read the thread i linked?

Title: Re: Interwiki redirect
Post by: Greenpickle on February 28, 2011, 08:27:29 AM

Yes.

Title: Re: Interwiki redirect
Post by: tacopill on March 01, 2011, 12:46:14 AM

Quote from: Greenpickle on February 28, 2011, 08:27:29 AM

Yes.

sounds good, Then i currently have nothing more to offer.

Title: Re: Interwiki redirect
Post by: KidIcarus on July 07, 2015, 11:52:56 PM

There's the generic way of creating an external link like you would see in the external links section of Wikipedia.