https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378

Quim Gil <[email protected]> changed:

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           Priority|Low                         |Lowest
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            Version|unspecified                 |1.23-git

--- Comment #18 from Quim Gil <[email protected]> ---
There were two parallel discussions here. One was about (en.wiki?) policies.
The other one was about software performance.

Since this is a request for MediaWiki Core, the discussion about policies is
secondary, and what really matters is this:

(In reply to Wil Mahan from comment #5)
> To do this, we'd need to check every link to see if it is a redirect
> (right now, this happens for users with a stub length threshold
> set), and check whether the targets of the redirects exist. I
> don't think it's worth it, especially without a clear consensus
> for the change.

(In reply to Aaron Schulz from comment #14)
> I do like the "write a quick stub" idea. Better than having the db
> recursively query a bunch of crap.

In other words, an expensive price for what seems to be a minor feature.

This report was WONTFIXED almost a decade ago, and it was reopened because it
was considered that the policy should be discussed. Looking only at the
software side, this looks indeed like a WONTFIX in 2014.

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