https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38962
T. H. Kelly <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |pinkampersand.wikimedia@gma | |il.com --- Comment #1 from T. H. Kelly <[email protected]> --- I think redirects should be created through two processes: Through special pages: For things like bug 38664, where a built-in tool will exist to make some sort of change that results in the elimination of an item, where there's another item on the same topic as the now-irrelevant item. Manually: There should be a 'redirectitem' user right (the assignment of which would be determined by the community, but would probably by default only be given to admins), which would allow a user who holds it to redirect a deleted item to another item. This would be primarily for cases where an item's been merged manually (i.e. all current merges, since there's still no special page for merges, and, presumably, some merges nonetheless even once we have a special page), as well as for cases such as when an item's been deleted after its linked article was deleted, but then the linked article is created and a new item is made for it (see also bug 49100). There have also been some cases where a vandal removes a sitelink from an item, and then a bot just creates a new item for that link. All of these aren't huge issues right now, but are clearly something we're going to need to deal with if we expect third-party sites to want to use our information - it would be very difficult to deal with Q#s suddenly becoming invalid, and their topics being replaced by new numbers. I'm obviously not commenting on the technical part of this, since I know nothing about that stuff, but I'm just giving a user-experience perspective of the situations where item redirects are necessary, and how they should be implemented. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
