Talk:Photokina/Archives/2015

Links to "photokina <year>" available

Many articles contain references to photokina combined with a year number, f.e. "photokina 2014" or similar. I have created a set of corresponding redirects in the English and German Wikipedia for all years when the photokina fair was actually held, and I would like to encourage other editors to use these redirects where they see fit. Using these redirects instead of a direct link to the "photokina" article has two advantages:

• Over time, a lot of photokina events linked this way can be found via "what links here", which can be useful for research inside and outside of Wikipedia.
• These redirects don't just point to the photokina article itself, but are targetted to an anchor containing the year. For now, these anchors are just "parked" under timeline (or could be moved to the start of the page). Over time, the timeline could be expanded to list the most important events, so that individual events discussed in other articles can easily be brought into context (other developments in photography around the same period of time).

It might make sense to extend this idea to other repeating events of similar importance and media coverage. --Matthiaspaul (talk) 10:52, 1 July 2015 (UTC)