https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42880
--- Comment #5 from John Broughton <[email protected]> --- (In reply to John Mark Vandenberg from comment #4) I think we've wandered off topic, for which I'll take some responsibility. The issue is NOT links to redirect pages, which (typically as hatnotes) can be absolutely correct. Rather, the problem is wikilinks to redirect pages **that are marked as being for misspellings**. So, let me reword the four alternatives I gave, above, to (hopefully) make this clearer. In articlespace (only): 1. The software adds an administrative category, "Articles with wikilinks to redirect pages for misspellings", when an article is saved that has one or more of these problematical links. 2. Links to redirect pages for misspellings are shown in yellow, both when previewing an edit and after saving the page. (With VisualEditor, the yellow coloring would appear immediately after typing the wikilink, which is ideal.) However, the editor can save the page with the (problematical) wikilink still on it. 3. The software issues a warning when an editor tries to save a page with a link to a redirect page used to fix a misspelling, but allows the editor to override this. (Misspelled wikilinks need to be highlighted, of course; the software could also make it easy to accept a spelling change, since the redirect page points to the correct spelling of the article being linked to) 4. The software issues a warning when an editor tries to save a page with a link to a redirect page for a misspelling, and prevents the editor from overriding this. (Misspelled wikilinks need to be highlighted, of course.) ** Addendum:** I'll also note that since we're concerned with *what the reader sees*, we should ignore wikilinks where a pipe is used, since the software can't (easily) determine if what the reader sees is correct: [[wikilink to redirect|possibly correctly spelled text]]. -- 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
