https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11456

--- Comment #14 from Kunal Mehta (Legoktm) <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #13)

> This is probably controversial. Some people have strong views about whether
> we
> should move toward Special pages or ?action= URLs. And for both options,
> there
> are differing views about implementation: for example,
> Special:Action/edit/page_title or wiki.org/edit/page_title.

This patch just adds in redirects, so users still go to ?action=edit. Even if
Special:Action/edit/Foo became the eventual destination, you would want
Special:Edit/Foo to end up there.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Drop_actions_in_favour_of_page_views_and_special_pages
seems rather dead.

I even named the classes "SpecialEditRedirect" instead of "SpecialEdit" in case
we decide to make it a special page in the future.

> Plus we now have complicating factors like Wikidata and VisualEditor and Flow
> to consider, where an "edit" means something almost entirely different.

True. I think those are edge cases though, and don't make the special pages
less useful for wikis/pages not using Wikibase/Flow.

VE is interesting because some users go to ?veaction=edit instead of
?action=edit. I'm not sure there's an easy way to handle this, will think about
it.

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