https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53862
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Bug ID: 53862
Summary: Removing portal-url, currentevents-url and helppage
from default Sidebar
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: General/Unknown
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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portal-url ("Community portal"), currentevents-url ("Current events") and
helppage ("Help") lead to empty pages in a fresh MediaWiki install, when most
projects won't need these pages ever.
Let's save some work to new MediaWiki sysadmins by removing those links.
This is by on my own experience as MediaWiki hobbyist sysadmin. But also:
I went to http://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Youngest_websites and I took a couple of
samples of about 10 sites in languages that i could understand:
* Most recent
* 1 year old or more
Among the most recent (up to 2 months old) most still had those 3 links,
leading to empty pages. The rest had removed 1, 2 or the 3 of them.
Among the 1 year old sample most had modified the Sidebar removing 2-3 of those
links and offering sensible, non-empty pages for all options.
Most people setting up a MediaWiki has seen Wikipedia and is probably
considering whether to have or not an own community portal or help. I don't
think we need to force new MediaWiki sysadmins to have them or learn to remove
them from the sidebar - seeing that what happens most of the times is that
those pages are in the meantime left empty (bad user experience).
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