https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42880
John Mark Vandenberg <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #4 from John Mark Vandenberg <[email protected]> --- (In reply to John Broughton from comment #3) > Google translate didn't turn Comment 2 into anything meaningful for me, so > here are four alternative solutions, which could be implemented in the > software, one or more of which may already have been suggested above (in > Polish). > > ... > > Alternatives #1, #2, and #3 are compatible; all could be implemented > together. Alternative #4 is problematical in that an editor who is doing a > minor change might be blocked from saving that change even though he/she had > nothing to do with creating the wikilinks that go to redirects, and he/she > may not understand how to correct this. (Think of a relatively new editor, > or an IP editor.) > > Implementing #1 would be invisible to the reader; #2 might cause a bit of > confusion. These solutions all presume that *every* link to a redirect is problematic. If that is what the software presumes, it will cause more problems than it solves. There are many instances where a link to a redirect page is appropriate. If they are categorised into a maintenance category, some idiot will try to 'fix' them. If it is more difficult to link to redirects using the VE UI, competent editors will complain bitterly. > *** Or someone could just create a bot that notifies editors that they've > made a mistake with their wikilink - as does DPL bot, for links to > disambiguation pages. *** This would be helpful, and the bot author could adapt the logic to understand when links to redirects are desirable. For redirects categorised as spelling mistakes, a bot could also fix them automatically. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
