https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71236
Bug ID: 71236
Summary: Automatically tag edits that make a redirect, or that
converts a redirected page to a normal page
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Change tagging
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
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When one creates a redirect without filling an edit summary, MediaWiki
automatically uses an edit summary to identify that the edit created a
redirect. That's very useful. But the autosummary doesn't work if the user
fills the edit summary. It also doesn't work when the user edits a redirected
page to make it a normal page, by removing the #REDIRECT syntax.
Redirections are very special edits that would be good to have them tagged for
review on recent changes and watchlists.
With AbuseFilter one could write some tricky filters to tag those edits, but
that's far from ideal.
My proposal is to have at least 2 new tags:
* One to tag when a redirect is created
* One when a redirect is removed (not by page deletion, but by removing the
#REDIRECT)
It would be nice to also have a tag for when a redirect target is changed
(pointing the redirect to another article) and also when a redirect is edited
without changing the redirect (like for example adding a category, a comment,
or simply content that won't be viewed anyway).
A slight limitation of tags (as I understand) is that they won't display the
redirect target as the autosummary does, but that's not important, I think. The
autosummary would do the job when present.
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