https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38664
--- Comment #23 from Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]> --- To sum up an internal discussion we had on this a couple of weeks back: This is stalled because of all the edge cases it introduces. It seems impossible to foresee and cover them all in advance. So it's probably best to provide a very simple base line implementation, and observe and improve from there. The baseline should include: * A special page for turning one item into a redirect to another. Data in the item is, for now, lost (though of cause still available via the page history). Actual merging of item data can be added later. * There should be no way to create or change a redirect via the API. * Any attempt to edit a redirect should cause an error. The only exceptions would be rollback/restore (but probably not undo) actions that remove the redirect-ness from the item. * Special:EntityData should automatically resolve redirects. * Item redirects should be presented to mediawiki as redirects through the ContentHandler facility. * MediaWiki should be able to automatically resolve double redirects in the usual manner. Quite a bit of desirable functionality and unclear edge cases remain, but the above should be easy enough to implement, and should provide a baseline for testing and tentative live use. -- 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
