Please also note the parent bug and rfc which blocks that. I've cced wikitech in case anyone has an update.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T39902 On 3 Aug 2016 5:14 a.m., "Stephen Niedzielski" <sniedziel...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hello! Thank you for the report! This issue is currently being tracked > here[0]. We had hoped to fix this properly but maybe we should consider a > temporary change in the client to handle this more gracefully. > > [0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119266 > > On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 4:21 AM, Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> > wrote: > >> The Android Wikipedia app shows Wikipedia's red links as blue links, >> then returns a user-unfriendly 404 error page, with the somewhat >> dishonest text "an unknown error occurred". >> >> Alternative, and better, behaviours would be one of (in no particular >> order): >> >> * Show a red link; behave like desktop Wikipedia >> >> * Show a red link; when the link is selected, show a customised 404 >> page, which advises users how start a new article >> >> * Show red text, but make it non linking (i.e. "unclickable") >> >> * Remove the link and colour-styling, and render ordinary text >> >> * Fix the erorr page so it says "Sorry, that page does not exist", >> with a link to a guide to starting a new article >> >> -- >> Andy Mabbett >> @pigsonthewing >> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mobile-l mailing list >> mobil...@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > mobil...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
