Is it true that, in the category $\mathbf{Top}$ of topological spaces and continuous maps, the compactly generated weakly Hausdorff spaces are precisely the spaces arising as filtered colimits of compact Hausdorff spaces?


Note added in the light of @Tyrone's comment. The answer to this question is NO
as can be seen by consider the directed colimit of maps $S^1\to S^1\to S^1\to\dots$ in which the $n$th map is defined $z\mapsto x^{n!}$. The colimit contains a point (namely the image of $1\in S^1$)
whose preimage is dense and so the colimit fails the weaker separation axiom $T\_1$.


In the light of this I should broaden the question: what I am really interested in is finding attractive ways of drawing attention to the weakly Hausdorff property and how it sits in relation to the world of compact Hausdorff spaces.



Possible characterisation of compactly generated weakly Hausdorff spaces
Peter Scholze's [comment](https://mathoverflow.net/questions/427995/possible-characterisation-of-compactly-generated-weakly-hausdorff-spaces#comment1101190_427995)



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is the correct answer to my question: thank you for this!


