Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-5175866-20130904014745/@comment-1693968-20130906021941

Eladkse wrote: I can't give you an answer to your later questions as I believe that would require server-side related changes, but let me clear up the definitions of redirects:


 * A hard redirect is one in the format . When a page with a hard redirect is visited, it automatically redirects you (and shows this in the page heading subtitle).
 * A soft redirect is generally a short piece of prose (e.g.  For X, see some page. ). This form is more uncommon, and has very few uses outside of cross-wiki redirecting.

Thanks for clearing up those definitions. :) I thought by soft redirect, he meant that he wanted the redirect page to display, rather than automatically redirecting. But that makes a lot more sense.

The server side changes were what I meant by contacting Wikia Staff. I'm not entirely sure if Wikia is set up for this, but there's probably some way the local settings could be modified for your wiki to make the changes you're asking about. I doubt a MediaWiki page would be capable of something like that. Also, there's a good likelihood Wikia wouldn't change something like that, so the answer is probably just that it's not possible.