Redirectionism
- Community
- Anti-wiki
- Conflict-driven view
- False community
- Wikiculture
- Wikifaith
- The Wiki process
- The wiki way
- Darwikinism
- Power structure
- Wikianarchism
- Wikibureaucracy
- Wikidemocratism
- WikiDemocracy
- Wikidespotism
- Wikifederalism
- Wikihierarchism
- Wikimeritocracy
- Wikindividualism
- Wikioligarchism
- Wikiplutocracy
- Wikirepublicanism
- Wikiscepticism
- Wikitechnocracy
- Collaboration
- Antifactionalism
- Factionalism
- Social
- Exopedianism
- Mesopedianism
- Metapedianism
- Overall content structure
- Transclusionism
- Antitransclusionism
- Categorism
- Structurism
- Encyclopedia standards
- Deletionism
- Delusionism
- Exclusionism
- Inclusionism
- Precisionism
- Precision-Skeptics
- Notability
- Essentialism
- Incrementalism
- Article length
- Mergism
- Separatism
- Measuring accuracy
- Eventualism
- Immediatism
- Miscellaneous
- Antiovertranswikism
- Mediawikianism
- Post-Deletionism
- Transwikism
- Wikidynamism
- Wikisecessionism
- Redirectionism
Redirectionism is a philosophy among Wikimedians who believe Redirects are a vital part of Wikimedia Projects. It is espoused by users called Redirectionists who favor this philosophy.
Motto
[edit]The motto and the major phrase used by Redirectionists is Redirects are the best.
Rationale about Redirects
[edit]Everybody, please feel free to add more arguments here! As many as possible!
- Redirects are one of the major behind-the-scenes mechanisms that maintain Wikipedia.
- Redirects not only help the Wikipedia's stability but also give easiness to readers.
- Redirects are cheap and consume almost no additional system resources and bandwidth.
- There are articles with a topic having Synonyms. Redirects are a solution for the readers who search those synonyms.
- Redirects save Wikipedia from Duplication. For example, if a user create an article on a topic which is already included in Wikipedia in another name, it will create duplication and this may create misunderstanding among the readers.
- The readers may not know the exact name of an article in Wikipedia. They may know only other names of article. Redirects find a solution for this.
- Redirects reduce the amount of redlinks, as they prevent link rot.
- Redirects keep history, whereas deletion destroys history.
- Redirects make Wikipedia more efficient.
- Redirects create a satisfaction among audience searched for an article in Wikipedia which is not in same name.
- The best product of redirects are shortcuts. Because it gives the opportunity for Wikipedians to search the pages easily and quickly.
- Redirects give the results to the readers who searched for a section in an article.
- Redirects give universality to Wikipedia.
- Redirects are vital to projects like the sun is to life.
- Redirects aid navigation and searching by allowing a page to be reached under alternative titles.
- Redirects are used to help people arrive more quickly at the page they want to read.
- Redirects are cool, because typing [[Ab Cdefg Hijklmno|Ab Cdefg]] is not very smart when [[Ab Cdefg]] will do.
- This is especially true on the Simple English Wikipedia. For readers who don't know the English name for something, they can search that term in a language they know in order to be redirected to the article they want to reach.
Association
[edit]There is an association for Wikipedians who believe in Redirectionism. Feel free to join...
Some facts about Redirectionism
[edit]- The Wikimedian Philosophy which is created after the association regarding this created.
- The philosophy doesn't have an associated conflicting philosophy. (like Deletionism–Inclusionism, Mergism-Separatism, Exopedianism-Metapedianism, etc).