https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5451
--- Comment #23 from John Mark Vandenberg <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Philippe Verdy from comment #22) > (In reply to John Mark Vandenberg from comment #21) > > Another way to improve the situation is for the output of the target > > (reached via a redirect) to say more than 'redirected from [category:old > > category]'. If automatic category member moving is not implemented, it > > could say 'redirected from [category:old category] which has 10 members', > > which alerts the reader to the fact that they should visit the old category. > > That's clearly not needed ! We don't have to use any template in the target > category, only the soft-redirected category uses a template that will > automatically recategorize as a subcategory of the target category, using a > sort key listing it with an index character like a backward arrow. > > I don't see any rationale for modifying the target category (i.e. the former > category page that has been moved). I only suggested a possible improvement to the *automated* 'redirected from' message. > Listing the older category as a > subcategory, as long as it is not empty, is enough !!! (and this works well > in Commons, Meta-Wiki, Wikipedia... except that sometime we need to > null-edit the empty soft-redirected category to unlist it from the target > category and remove if from the maintenance category listing non-empty > soft-redirected categories) This is a solution which will continue to work. -- 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
