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::: However, for other things, like [[Nanson's method]], it's good to keep all the content on Wikipedia, but still have the method appear in our category hierarchy, so it's just a stub with categories that links to WP. — [[User:Psephomancy|Psephomancy]] ([[User talk:Psephomancy|talk]]) 23:07, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
:::: After discovering the old state of [[Duverger's law]], I've become convinced that we need a new namespace for pointers to offsite content. The problem was that searching for "Duverger's law" in the search box on Electowiki and hiting "enter" caused the reader to get immediately transported to [[wikipedia:Duverger's law]]. As of right now, you can see the same effect by typing "JSTOR" in the search box and hitting "enter".
:::: The way that I'd like to use a new offsite namespace is very similarly to the new [[CiteSeerX]] pointer. [[CiteSeerX]] points to [[Electowiki:CiteSeerX]], which provides a brief pointer to [[wikipedia:CiteSeerX]]. [[User:Psephomancy]], you're probably right that in the ideal case, we'd have one of those "you are being redirected offsite in x seconds" interstitials, but I think we can make a [[:Template:Offsite]] that makes it very clear how to manually advance to Wikipedia. Regardless, I appreciate that [[CiteSeerX]] doesn't show up in the [[Special:AllPages]] when redirects are excluded, and that it doesn't show up in [[mediawikiwiki:Manual:Article_count|our article count]]. It's possible tha "Disambiguation:" should be another namespace, but we don't need to decide that yet.
:::: For cleaning up redlinks, I would rather just fix the articles to link to Wikipedia directly (when appropriate), rather than link to Wikipedia via redirect. Barring objections in the next couple of days, I'll set up that "Offsite:" namespace -- [[User:RobLa|RobLa]] ([[User talk:RobLa|talk]]) 04:59, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
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