https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16854
--- Comment #22 from Robert Rohde <[email protected]> 2009-01-29 19:26:13 UTC --- (In reply to comment #21) > (In reply to comment #16) > > English Wikipedia have already blanked the error printed by this bug so > > you'd > > have to wonder if it was worth the effort in the first place. > > > > I thought it was a rather informative error. Suggestions welcome on exact > wording though. To be honest: it doesn't really matter what enwiki does with > the message. Do other communities like it? If the general agreement is in > favor, I fail to see how one wiki's actions should cause so much > backpedaling. <snip> I think the primary complaint with the error message isn't the text, but rather that many people saw silently failing as the expected behavior under some circumstances. Specifically, when one copies text from an article to a talk page for discussion, that text may contain ref tags, but that does not necessarily mean that people want or expect a references section on the talk page. On enwiki, this modification added error messages to hundreds of pages where no one really thought there was a problem. Hence people are going out of their way to hide the error message from those pages, since they don't really see it as an error. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
