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This article has been adapted from
Wikipedia:Soft redirect
and
Help:Redirect
on the English Wikipedia. The English pages have been translated in other languages. When editing or translating this page, consider referring to/ synchronizing with the current versions listed on Wikidata:
Wikipedia:Soft redirect
and
Help:Redirect
soft redirect
or
interwiki redirect
is a replacement of usual or "hard"
redirects
that is usually used where the linked destination is another website — including other
Wikimedia projects
. Soft redirects differ from ordinary redirects in that they lead to a special redirect page first, requiring the user to click through to the redirected link again as opposed to automatically taking them there.
Unlike normal redirects, a soft redirect is not a functionality of the wiki software. It is merely a page with a notification to users, that they will be taken to another website when clicking on the link being offered.
The technique is particularly likely to be used when redirecting users across different
Wikimedia sister projects
. Normal
redirects
would be undesirable in these circumstances, and hard
interwiki
redirects are disabled. (Reasons: they could not be easily edited without hand-crafting the correct URL, since clicking on a link to the redirect page would take you straight to the redirect's target and there would be no "Redirected from ..." message to click, in order to return to the redirect page itself; there would also be infinite loop security considerations.)
Example:
What links here
" is a
hard redirect
to "
Help:What links here
". This is indicated by the small notice "
(Redirected from
What links here
" on the top left of the
target page
At the same time the target page "
Help:What links here
" in itself is a
soft redirect
to the target "
mw:Help:What links here
" on MediaWiki.org.
Soft redirects between different languages should be avoided because they will generally be unhelpful to readers unfamiliar with the destination language.
Soft redirects are intended mostly to point to external websites, where hard redirects will not function. For internal use in general, hard redirects should be used instead.
Another situation where soft redirects are used is when the intended target is a special page, and the system automatically "softens" attempted hard redirects to special pages. For example,
en:Wikipedia:List of tags
redirects to
en:Special:Tags
Category soft redirects
In some projects such as English Wikipedia, a notion similar to the original interwiki soft redirect is applied to categories, and they are also called "soft redirects." See for example
w:en:Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion#Redirecting_categories
Templates
Meta-Wiki: {{
Interwiki redirect
}}
MediaWiki: {{
Interwiki redirect
}}
Wikimedia Commons: {{
Softredirect
}}
Wikidata: {{
Softredirect
}}
Wikimedia Incubator: {{
Soft redirect
}}
Wikipedia: {{
Soft redirect
}}
Wiktionary: {{
Softredirect
}}
Wikisource: {{
Softredirect
}}
Wikibooks: {{
Softredirect
}}
Wikiquote: {{
Softredirect
}}
Wikinews: {{
Softredirect
}}
Wikispecies: {{
Softredirect
}}
Wikiversity: {{
Softredirect
}}
Wikivoyage: {{
Soft redirect
}}
See also:
d:Q4844001
and
d:Q13156670
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