https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53476
--- Comment #12 from Thiemo Mättig <[email protected]> --- Oh wow, this is complicated. I finally understood what Lydia and you expect. The problem is, this can't and will never work, at least not so easily. In Wikibase the Q numbers are the titles. The labels are not titles. Wikibase labels are not unique. MediaWiki page titles are. If you type a MediaWiki page title (e.g. "Q123") which is known to be a (unique) title Special:Search will do a redirect for you. There are many reasons this can't work for labels, especially the fact that labels aren't unique (try to search for "Berlin") and multi lingual. Sure, we could try to implement some kind of label lookup that does a redirect if only one search result is found. But since there are so many labels and so many duplicates this isn't going to work in most cases and will be counterintuitive in others. @Lydia: Daniel said this was once discussed at length. Can you post a link to the discussion? I suggest to keep this "block a key" request closed. (Really, why should we block typing "Q123" if that's what a user wants?) This needs to be discussed somewhere else. -- 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
