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A soft redirect or interwiki redirect is a replacement of usual or "hard" redirects when the destination is another site. Unlike normal redirects, there is nothing special for soft redirects as wiki pages. It's only that soft redirects are very short pages of which all information is the notification to readers, showing the destination in another site to obtain the information they were seeking.

The technique is particularly likely to be used when redirecting users across different Wikimedia projects. Normal redirects would be undesirable in these circumstances, and hard interwiki redirects are disabled. (Reasons: they could not be easily edited without hand-crafting the correct URL; clicking on a link to the redirect page would take you straight to the redirect's target and there would be no "Redirected from ..." message to click, so it would be impossible to return to the redirect page itself; there would also be infinite loop security considerations.)

A soft redirect can also be useful if one wants to link to it from its target, as an invitation to create a page, like a red link. Just as a red link looks different from an ordinary link, a link to a soft redirect can look different using the stub link feature. See also Redirect and/or link to non-existing page.

Soft redirects between different languages should be avoided because they will generally be unhelpful to readers unfamiliar with the destination language.

Category soft redirects

In some projects such as English Wikipedia, a notion similar to the original interwiki soft redirect is applied to categories, and they are also called "soft redirects." See for example w:en:Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion#Redirecting_categories.

Templates

Meta: {{Interwiki redirect}}
Commons: {{Softredirect}}
Wikidata: {{Softredirect}}
Incubator: {{Soft redirect}}
Wikipedia: {{Soft redirect}}
Wiktionary: {{Softredirect}}
Wikisource: {{Softredirect}}
Wikibooks: {{Softredirect}}
Wikiquote: {{Softredirect}}
Wikinews: {{Softredirect}}
Wikiversity: {{Softredirect}}
Wikivoyage: {{Soft redirect}}

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-{{Soft redirect/lang}}
+A '''soft redirect''' or '''interwiki redirect''' is a replacement of usual or "hard" [[Help:Redirect|redirects]] when the destination is another site. Unlike normal redirects, there is nothing special for soft redirects as wiki pages. It's only that soft redirects are very short pages of which all information is the notification to readers, showing the destination in another site to obtain the information they were seeking.
-'''Мяккае перанакіраваньне''' — вельмі малая ў памерах старонка, якая, у адрозьненьні ад [[Help:Redirect|звычайнага перанакіраваньня]], папераджае, што запытаны зьмест знаходзіцца на іншым сайце.
+The technique is particularly likely to be used when redirecting users across different [[Wikimedia projects|Wikimedia projects]]. Normal redirects would be undesirable in these circumstances, and hard interwiki redirects are disabled. (Reasons: they could not be easily edited without hand-crafting the correct URL; clicking on a link to the redirect page would take you straight to the redirect's target and there would be no "Redirected from ..." message to click, so it would be impossible to return to the redirect page itself; there would also be infinite loop security considerations.)
-Звычайна такая тэхніка выкарыстоўваецца для перанакіраваньня паміж роднаснымі праектамі Вікімэдыі. Звычайныя, «''жорсткія''» перанакіраваньні, маглі б зьбіць карыстальніка спанталыку, бо без папярэджаньня наведвальнік быў перакінуты на іншы сайт. Дадаткова, не зьявілася б звыклай зацемкі <span style="color:gray;font-size:11px">(Перанакіраваная з...)</span> уверсе старонкі.
+A soft redirect can also be useful if one wants to link to it from its target, as an invitation to create a page, like a red link. Just as a red link looks different from an ordinary link, a link to a soft redirect can look different using the [[Help:Link#Stub feature|stub link feature]]. See also [[Help:Redirect#Redirect and/or link to non-existing page|Redirect and/or link  to non-existing page]].
-== Шаблёны ==
+Soft redirects between different languages should be avoided because they will generally be unhelpful to readers unfamiliar with the destination language.
-* Мета-Вікі: {{tl|Interwiki redirect}}
-* Вікіпэдыя: {{[[:be-x-old:Template:Мяккае перанакіраваньне|Мяккае перанакіраваньне]]}}
+== Category soft redirects ==
-* Вікісховішча: <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Commons:Template:Softredirect|Softredirect]]}}
+In some projects such as English Wikipedia, a notion similar to the original interwiki soft redirect is applied to categories, and they are also called "soft redirects." See for example [[w:en:Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion#Redirecting_categories]].
+== Templates ==
+* Meta: {{tl|Interwiki redirect}}
+* Commons: <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Commons:Template:Softredirect|Softredirect]]}}
+* Wikidata: <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Wikidata:Template:Softredirect|Softredirect]]}}
+* Incubator: <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Incubator:Template:Soft redirect|Soft redirect]]}}
+* Wikipedia: <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Wikipedia:Template:Soft redirect|Soft redirect]]}}
+* Wiktionary: <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Wiktionary:Template:Softredirect|Softredirect]]}}
+* Wikisource: <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Wikisource:Template:Softredirect|Softredirect]]}}
+* Wikibooks: <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Wikibooks:Template:Softredirect|Softredirect]]}}
+* Wikiquote: <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Wikiquote:Template:Softredirect|Softredirect]]}}
+* Wikinews: <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Wikinews:Template:Softredirect|Softredirect]]}}
+* Wikiversity: <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Wikiversity:Template:Softredirect|Softredirect]]}}
+* Wikivoyage: <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Wikivoyage:Template:Soft redirect|Soft redirect]]}}
 [[Category:Interwiki problems]]
-[[Category:Categories/be-tarask]]