Acronyms on MediaWiki

Page redirects will work even if the page that is forwarded has category information.

So you can write a page for AATA with content like this:

#REDIRECT [[Ann Arbor Transportation Authority]]

[[Category:Acronyms]]

Which will auto forward the user to the correct explanatory page.

The bonus is you  get a nice listing of everything categorized as an acronym (ArborWiki example)

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This entry (permalink) was posted on Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 at 11:19 AM by Matt Hampel and categorized in arborwiki.

Comments (1) left to “Acronyms on MediaWiki”

  1. Andrew wrote:

    Good find, thanks for the tip. Will use this on the Richmond Wiki.

    However for SEO purposes I like direct linking to the page but using the acronym as the anchor text. In your example it would be:

    [[Ann Arbor Transportation Authority|AATA]]

    Posted on 25-Aug-09 at 2:46 pm | Permalink

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