https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47801
--- Comment #1 from Steven Walling <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #0) > The new UserLogin shows red links everywhere. I assume this was done to > compensate the removal of the wall of text on en.wiki, but it's not nice: on > most wikis those help pages won't exist and are not needed (username policy), > or are needed but shouldn't exist locally (logging in; bug 43591), or exist > but > under another title (every Wikipedia except en.wiki; it.wiki has been fixed, > fr.wiki not yet, most Wikipedias will never be fixed). > > Simple solution: kill the links (e.g. createacct-helpusername-link) and leave > them to customisations of the preceding messages (e.g. userlogin-yourname), > which need to parse links and also some HTML if the grey is absolutely > needed, > and possibly to be copied to a new key if they're recycled from previous > interface. > > Complex solution: identify if the page exist and don't link it if it doesn't > and/or link to MediaWiki.org, e.g. > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Logging_in . As noted in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Account_creation_user_experience/Testing#Things_to_pay_attention_to_while_testing_both_interfaces we are leaving the red links in and encouraging people to either edit the message locally or simply redirect the links to the appropriate title. This is why redirects were invented. Most of these links, like the ones to basic help pages about login and signing up, exist on most of our projects in some form. For third party users, it's one of several things they may need to customize. -- 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
