Board Thread:Wiki management/@comment-26470588-20170225073729/@comment-7091122-20170325204804

ThisUserLikesOreo wrote: Camwood777 wrote: ThisUserLikesOreo wrote: YammaYamer21 wrote: ThisUserLikesOreo wrote: Camwood777 wrote: ThisUserLikesOreo wrote:

It's going to be better to take a few seconds going to the wrong page than taking hours of changing the links.}}
 * 1) REDIRECT

Hey, look at that. A feature to make that not be an issue. It's almost like fixing this problem forever is completely trivial. Redirect sometimes takes you to the redirect page without redirecting you to the right page. ... so? Just one click more. And it won't take much time, if any at all, to load a page with just a link in it, no matter how cr&ppy your computer is. That is the point! Try telling that to Cam, it seems that he doesn't understand that.

But otherwise, no, you're gonna go to the page it redirects you to. No exceptions except for those. It has happened to me multiple times on multiple wikis. It's definitely not my fault that it even happens, and if it only happens to me, then okay, I might agree with some of your statements. Note the second point: The wiki is flat-out glitching on you, in which case the most you can do about that is simply report it and hope it gets fixed.

Given experience, Wikia's platform seems to universally do this under currently unknown circumstances. So it's not a problem here... It's a problem everywhere on Wikia. And so the only reason to stop that is either have Wikia altogether fix this mysterious bug, or move our entire wiki to an entirely different Wiki platform.

So, while I can state it's not you, it's also everyone, and because it's also Wikia. I can say that because other wiki platforms, like the one utilized by the Homestar Runner Wiki (hrwiki.org), TVTropes, or Big Daddy Wikipedia himself, do not have this issue, while Wikia-based ones like this one do.

And honestly, if one's only going off an issue with the wiki engine, and it's out of control from the user or the regular wiki itself, in my honest opinion, it's unfair.