Tools and hacks: Wikipedia redirect
November 13, 2007, [MD]
I’m not
a great programmer, but sometimes I come up with little neat tools that
might be useful to others. I am going to try to post more of them on
this blog, and I also made a page called Tools and
hacks, where I will be collecting them.
Here is the first one:
Wikipedia language redirect
Example:
http://reganmian.net/redir/en/zh/Hamar
(takes you to the article on Hamar (哈马尔) in Chinese Wikipedia.
Explanation: redir/from-language/to-language/article.
Example 2:
http://reganmian.net/redir/it/ar/Democrazia
(looks up democracy (ديمقراطي) in Arabic Wikipedia)
Rationale: Supposed to be used through for example a Firefox shortcut (http://reganmian.net/redir/en/zh/%s) for your most common combination. I use it frequently for Chinese, when my friend tells me he just made a great page about Moscow, or to find out how they spell Plato.
Stian
(Thanks to pvera @ flickr for the
photo)