Convenient Teleport
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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 be aware of this (especially non-wiki team editors). This isn't absolutely necessary, but keeping our thumbs down on the-soon-to-be birthage of tons of new 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)]] query "Pershing" re-redirected to [[M26 Pershing]] re-phrased and moved [[Pershing (disambiguation)]] to [[Camo (disambiguation)]] query "Camo" redirected to [[Camo (disambiguation)]] query "Leopard PT A" redirected to [[Leopard prototyp A]] "Hellcat" redirected to [[M18 Hellcat]] "M18" redirected to [[M18 Hellcat]] "M10" redirected to [[M10 (disambiguation)]] "Wolverine" redirected to [[M10 Wolverine]] "Jackson" redirected to [[M36 Jackson]] "M36" redirected to [[M36 Jackson]] "Chaffee" redirected to [[M24 Chaffee]] "M24" redirected to [[M24 Chaffee]] "Super Pershing" redirected to [[T26E4 Super Pershing]] "T26E4" redirected to [[T26E4 Super Pershing]] "M22" redirected to [[M22 Locust]] "Locust" redirected to [[M22 Locust]] "Lee" redirected to [[M3 Lee]] "M3" redirected to [[M3 (disambiguation)]] "Stuart" redirected to [[Stuart (disambiguation)]] "M2" redirected to [[M2 (disambiguation)]] "M2 LT" redirected to [[M2 Light Tank]] "M2 MT" redirected to [[M2 Medium Tank]] "T2" redirected to [[T2 (disambiguation)]] "T2 LT" redirected to [[T2 Light Tank]] "T2 MT" redirected to [[T2 Medium Tank]] "T1" redirected to [[T1 (disambiguation)]] "Cunningham" redirected to [[T1 Cunningham]] "T1 HT" redirected to [[T1 Heavy Tank]] "NC-31" redirected to [[Renault NC-31]] "Chi-Ha" redirected to [[Type 2597 Chi-Ha]] "M5A1" redirected to [[M5A1 Stuart]] "King Tiger" redirected to [[Pz.Kpfw. Tiger II]] "Tiger II" redirected to [[Pz.Kpfw. Tiger II]] "Panther" redirected to [[Pz.Kpfw. V Panther]] "FT AC" redirected to [[Renault FT AC]] "UE 57" redirected to [[Renault UE 57]] "SAu 40" redirected to [[Somua SAu 40]] "V39" redirected to [[ARL V39]] "AMX AC 46" redirected to [[AMX AC Mle. 1946]] "AMX AC 48" redirected to [[AMX AC Mle. 1948]] "Foch" redirected to [[AMX 50 Foch]] "Foch 155" redirected to [[AMX 50 Foch (155)]] "FT" redirected to [[Renault FT]] "BS" redirected to [[Renault FT 75 BS]] "FT BS" redirected to [[Renault FT 75 BS]] "Lorraine 155 50" redirected to [[Lorraine 155 mle. 50]] "Lorraine 155 51" redirected to [[Lorraine 155 mle. 51]] "BDR" redirected to [[BDR G1 B]] "AMX M4 45" redirected to [[AMX M4 mle. 45]] "50 100" redirected to [[AMX 50 100]] "50 120" redirected to [[AMX 50 120]] "ELC" redirected to [[ELC AMX]] "13 75" redirected to [[AMX 13 75]] "13 90" redirected to [[AMX 13 90]] "FCM 36" redirected to [[FCM 36 Pak 40]] "Sherman" redirected to [[Sherman (disambiguation)]] "Leopard" redirected to [[Leopard (disambiguation)]] "VK3001D", "VK 3001 D", VK 3001 (D)" redirected to [[VK 30.01 (D)]], same applies for the [[VK 30.01 (P)]], [[VK 30.01 (H)]], [[VK 36.01 (H)]], [[VK 30.02 (D)]], and [[VK 20.01 (D)]] "VK 2001" and "VK2001" redirected to [[VK 20.01 (D)]] "Pz. III", "Pz III", "Pz. 3", "Pz 3", "Panzer III", "Panzer 3" Redirected to [[Pz.Kpfw. III]], [[Pz.Kpfw. IV]], [[Pz.Kpfw. V/IV]], and [[Pz.Kpfw. V/IV Alpha]] (Alpha also spelt as "A" for redirects, I.E. Pz V/IV A) "Churchill" redirected to [[Churchill (disambiguation)]] "Sexton" redirected to [[Sexton (disambiguation)]] "M4A2E4" redirected to [[M4A2E4 Sherman]] "Lowe" redirected to [[Löwe]] "TOG" redirected to [[TOG II*]] "TOG II" redirected to [[TOG II*]] "WZ-111 1-4" redirected to [[WZ-111 1-4]] "SU-14" redirected to [[SU-14 (disambiguation)]] "M48A1" redirected to [[M48A1 Patton]] "M48" redirected to [[M48A1 Patton]] "M46" redirected to [[M46 Patton]] "Patton" redirected to [[Patton (disambiguation)]]
