Thread:Drew1200/@comment-25995065-20150221062621

Hi Drew,

For a while I've seen that this wiki prefixes some redirects with "LMBW" to redirect to the Project (LEGO Message Boards Wiki) namespace. This isn't the best way to go about this since it's technically a cross-namespace redirect, which generally aren't good to have. First problem with them is they throw bots off when the bot is set to one namespace and it runs into the redirect to another namespace. Another problem is it fills up mainspace search results with non-mainspace entries. MediaWiki has a built in feature to create namespace "Aliases" to act just like another namespace. What this would do would be you could type " " and it would go to LEGO Message Boards Wiki:Announcements without the need to create redirects. You could then create redirect pages such as " " which with the alias could be linked to with " ". This would keep the redirect source and destination in the same namespace but also make the shortcut linking still possible.

This is something that we could ask Wikia staff to enable. You may see it as "minor" but it solves a few minor problems, which is better than leaving minor problems around. If you do agree to have Wikia staff enable this, we should delete all the pages with this prefix already (list) or they'll become "inaccessible" due to a MediaWiki bug when new namespaces or aliases are added. Just a minor inconvenience, but it's still solving some issues with how we're currently handling shortcuts on this wiki.

Regards, Bourgeoisie (talk) 06:26, February 21, 2015 (UTC) 