On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Ryan Lane <rlan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> See: > > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45255 > > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/50305/ > > Just in case this is controversial, I thought I'd bring this topic up on > the list. > > We currently send 404s for empty user pages, even for valid users. It would > be ideal to use user page urls as OpenID provider identity urls, but most > users never create their user pages. OpenID expects identity urls to be > 200s, not 404s. I'd like us to send 200s rather than 404s for any valid > user's user pages, whether the page has content or not. > No objection for me. We should be showing a nice user dashboard on the user page anyway, regardless of whether the user's filled out any text. Seems to me it might be better to override WikiPage::hasViewableContent() though rather than hardcode that check into Article::showMissingArticle(). -- brion _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
