https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16561
--- Comment #9 from Stefan Nowak <[email protected]> 2010-04-12 16:43:34 BST --- >From the technical reasoning above, it seems that the technical implementation of this enhancement is not so easy. In particular I am not familiar with the MediaWiki source code. And in general my programming skills are on a low level. Despite this technical circumstances, I see a HIGH POTENTIAL in this enhancement for the USABILITY of MediaWiki for both READERS and EDITORS, positively affecting content quality control/improvement! (Reasoning in detail below) @Developers: Please, someone volunteer! Besides this: Is there a formal possibility to submit a feature request to WikiMedia Foundation, which if convinced, then puts "official emphasis" on a particular enhancement towards the volunteering community, or even commissions it to paid developers? ---- CURRENT STATUS: On PageA: Some text. A link to [[PageB#Section1]]. Some more text. Some time later, PageB is restructured, featuring no more Section1. If I then read PageA, the link to [[PageB#Section1]] appears as a completely ordinary link. If I click on it, I get to the root of PageB (at least), but not to the dedicated section! SUGGESTED IMPROVEMENT: The link to the non-existing section shall have a different appearance. BENEFITS: IMPROVED USABILITY for the PURE READER: S/he knows that the link points to a page which still exists, but that the section does not exist anymore. This visual distinction helps to quickly mentally reassess the accuracy/expectancy for that particular link. You may not follow it at all, choose another link, or visit it, but with a lowered expectation, knowingly that you will not find your desired information instantly, but that you will have to spend some time to find your desired content. QUALITY CONTROL/IMPROVEMENT tool for the ENTHUSIASTIC READER/EDITOR: S/he knowingly spots the broken section link and can correct it. Either to a new section, which more or less closely matches the old one, or to the root of the page at least, or to a totally new page, if necessary. FACTUAL BASIS: I have not collected empirical evidence, how often I encounter broken cross-page section links, and how long it takes me to eventually get to links supposedly content. AFAIR it happens quite sometimes! If it helps a potential volunteering developer to have more reasoning/evidence, I am ready to provide/collect! -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- 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
