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If the redirect target is an existing page on English Wikipedia and a reader navigates to the redirect page – by wikilink, the search box, or a URL – the reader is taken directly to the target page. A small notice below the top title indicates that the user arrived via a redirect.
Tools for gadget devs: Wikiblame – use for searching when some function or option was introduced. Wiki-to-Git – download JS/CSS history to Git which you can then use for gadget development as well as use git blame and other standard development tools. Wikiploy – use to deploy gadgets to Wikipedia, Meta and other MediaWiki sites.
An example of a Wikipedia redirect, showing a message that Pichilemo redirects to Pichilemu An example of a redirect on the MinervaNeue skin, from Web redirect to URL redirection. Note the black message bar on the bottom. A redirect is a page that
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translatewiki.net, formerly named Betawiki, is a web-based translation platform [1] powered by the Translate extension for MediaWiki.It can be used to translate various kinds of texts but is commonly used for creating localisations for software interfaces.
A benchmark ran in January 2006 showed that fixing a redirect is approximately ten thousand times more expensive for the server than following that redirect. In other words, readers of Wikipedia would have to use a redirect link approximately 10,000 times before it would be worthwhile to replace that link with a direct link.
What happens next: Once your request is submitted, it will be reviewed by one or more registered editors who will determine if the redirect is appropriate. If it is, the redirect will be created. If not, it will be declined. If your suggestion is declined: Don't take it personally! Having a proposal declined by no means reflects poorly on you ...
When you or another editor moves a page, the old page name doesn't go away. Instead, it becomes a redirect page (or simply a redirect). That's good—other pages in Wikipedia are probably linked to the old name, and the redirect means the links on those other pages still work. They take the reader to the page in its new location.