2009/1/11 Carcharoth <[email protected]>: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Ian Woollard <[email protected]> wrote: >> 2009/1/11 Carcharoth <[email protected]>: >>> That would mess up linking between articles. >> >> No, it would create red links, which would help people find the >> sub-par article and encourage them to improve it. >> >> Red links are usually considered to be broadly positive. > > I agree red links are positive, but people generally think redlinks > are the absence of an article. Clicking on a redlink normally gets a > screen asking if you want to create an article, not "can you improve > this article". A different colour link leading to the "incubation" > namespace is probably what you are thinking of, and might work.
This is all hypothetical, but I was thinking that if the article was, according to the values you had set, underwater, then the links to it would be red, and clicking on them would lead you, not to the article page, but to a page with a link to be able to see and edit the subpar article. > Carcharoth -- -Ian Woollard We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. Life in a perfectly imperfect world would be much better. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
