https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42880

John Broughton <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from John Broughton <[email protected]> ---
Google translate didn't turn Comment 2 into anything meaningful for me, so here
are four alternative solutions, which could be implemented in the software, one
or more of which may already have been suggested above (in Polish).

In articlespace (only):

1. The software adds an administrative category, "Articles with wikilinks to
redirect pages", when an article is saved that has one or more problematical
links.

2. Links to redirect pages are shown in yellow, both when previewing an edit
and after saving the page. (With VisualEditor, the yellow coloring would appear
immediately after typing the wikilink, which is ideal.) However, the editor can
save the page with the (problematical) wikilink still on it.

3. The software issues a warning when an editor tries to save a page with a
link to a redirect page, but allows the editor to override this. (Problem
wikilinks need to be highlighted, of course.)

4. The software issues a warning when an editor tries to save a page with a
link to a redirect page, and prevents the editor from overriding this. (Problem
wikilinks need to be highlighted, of course.)

Alternatives #1, #2, and #3 are compatible; all could be implemented together.
Alternative #4 is problematical in that an editor who is doing a minor change
might be blocked from saving that change even though he/she had nothing to do
with creating the wikilinks that go to redirects, and he/she may not understand
how to correct this. (Think of a relatively new editor, or an IP editor.)

Implementing #1 would be invisible to the reader; #2 might cause a bit of
confusion.

*** Or someone could just create a bot that notifies editors that they've made
a mistake with their wikilink - as does DPL bot, for links to disambiguation
pages. ***

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