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Version du 18 août 2013 à 07:54

About

The long-awaited and in long-in-high-demand redirect project is finally cleared for liftoff! No more shall new visitors be bottom bamboozled when typing the in-battle vehicle names don't bring them to the tank they want to learn about! We have to keep this clean and organized until we establish some sort of standardization, less redirects is better, don't go too overboard mmk. It is important to avoid creating not only unnecessary disambiguations, but also unnecessary redirects. The higher-ups have set high hopes for this project, let's get the bacon sizzling.

• SwissedToast's request: "I need a statistics log for search queries. That search bar on the top right of the wiki, it must have query statistics stored somewhere. If we can get our hands on those all the guesswork will be taken out of this project. Example if search query "Tiger" has been searched 200,000 times (or some obscure amount), a redirect is necessary to redirect "Tiger" to "Pz.Kpfw. VI Tiger", which is the full page name Pz.Kpfw. VI Tiger."

Update Note: For the time being only focus on in-battle abbreviations. Obvious universally established names such as "Hellcat" "Tiger" "Chaffee" "Super Pershing" "King Tiger" are also a go. I want to avoid punctuation variations as they are low-priority and quickly clutter things up. I wouldn't do "Bathtub" or "Duck" either, no fun allowed, no smiling, no laughing. Also make sure you log your redirects in the tracker, we weren't allowed to do this for a long time because of potential anarchy and chaotic chaos, let us not disappoint the brass.

How-To Create Redirect pages

• type in the search query in the search bar at the top right of wiki (ex. Tiger)
• click "create the page "Tiger" on this wiki!"
• put in:

#REDIRECT [[Pz.Kpfw. VI Tiger]]

• hit save

next time someone searches "Tiger", they will be automatically redirected to Pz.Kpfw. VI Tiger, just like how it'd be expected to be.

• See Tiger, and click (Redirected from "Tiger") under the page title.

Disambiguation

Another usage of redirects is to redirect search queries to disambiguation pages. Basically something like this:

The term "repair" may refer to:
* The repair skill
* Small and Large repair kits
* Game mechanics

with rephrased hyperlinks like [[Crew#Skills | repair skill] which would turn "repair skill" to a link to the skills section of the crew page, [[Crew#Skills | repair skill]. Disambiguations are an essential part of any wiki, absolutely necessary for MMORPG-dedicated wikis, though their usage here may be more limited.

The ambiguous search query "repair" will be redirected to Repair (disambiguation) which will have the brief content like shown in above.

• See Repair, and click (Redirected from "Repair") under the page title.

Redirect Tracker

Please put down the names of any redirects you make, though I can't expect every editor to see this tracker (including non-wiki team editors). This isn't absolutely necessary, but keeping our thumbs down on the-soon-to-be birthage of tons of new redirect pages can prevent clutter/over-redirecting. Redirects can get pretty messy, which was the reason we avoided using them for the longest time.

query "Tiger" redirected to [[Pz.Kpfw. VI Tiger]]
query "Repair" redirected to [[Repair (disambiguation)]]