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
editThe motto and the major phrase used by Redirectionists is Redirects are the best.
Rationale about Redirects
editEverybody, 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
editThere 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).