I think more user friendly warning would be better. Using dev jargon like Foo:Foo:Bar. 'Foo:Foo would not be appropriate since most of the wiki users are not developers.
If the namespace drop-down menu at Special:MovePage is a misfeature what would be a better fix? Best Regards, Shanika Ediriweera Undergraduate Dept. of Computer Science & Eng. University of Moratuwa On 21 February 2017 at 08:47, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote: > Shanika Ediriweera wrote: > >I am working on the task "When moving, warn if people try to move to > >Foo:Foo:Bar (repeated namespace)" - > >https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T62399 > >. > > > >What would be a good alert message for the users when there is repeated > >namespace in title? > > Maybe something like this: > > "Please verify your new page title: Foo:Foo:Bar. 'Foo:Foo:' in a page > title is usually a mistake." > > But the deeper issue is <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T50239>. The > namespace drop-down menu at Special:MovePage is a misfeature. > > MZMcBride > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
