Board Thread:The Scriptorium/@comment-206.123.250.91-20140402145622/@comment-24150802-20140406101100

I'm more concerned with not inconveniencing wiki users, rather than wiki editors (and least concerned of all about content owners who link to the wiki, but I'm aware that content owners generally will not update their links, which is why I mentioned them before). It is certainly true that making things easier for wiki editors is a good thing, but not at the expense of usability for wiki readers. We have a wiki to provide information to the users in a way that's convenient for them to use, and broken external links (whether from HabitRPG forums or other sites) make it less convenient for the readers. If we allowed broken external links to exist so that wiki editors had an easier job, then I think we'd be losing sight of why we're maintaining the wiki.

On the other hand, if maintaining the wiki becomes such a burden that it just doesn't get done properly, then the wiki readers would also suffer, and so that does need to be avoided, but I don't think we're anywhere close to that point. There are a lot of redirects on Special:AllPages, but I think that's more of a good thing than a bad thing. For example, if you're looking for a page about Trello, you'll find an entry called "Trello" in that list, and it will take you to the correct "Feature Tracker" page. Without the redirect, you'd have very little chance of finding a Trello page from the AllPages list. If you're specifically wanting to ignore redirect pages, you can do that (albeit not very easily) by ignoring the italicised links on that page.