[Mediawiki-l] [Foundation-l] Red category link is unhelpful

[Milan Tesovic]

I agree. The link whould be red, because
despite its useful when red,
the category MUST be a part of another category, wich contains a group of 
categories.

On the other side it should take you to the list of articles allready in the 
category,
instead of the edit the category page.

There is another possible solution:
Unregistred users see category as a blue link
which will lead them to the list of the articles in the category
but registered users will see red link which leads them to the 'edit 
category' editbox

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Virgil Ierubino" <virgil.ierubino at gmail.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 12:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] [Foundation-l] Red category link is unhelpful


> Further to this thread (making category links red only if they have just 1
> member,
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2007-March/019259.html ),
> and in response to the responses (that changing the colours was met with
> disapproval), might I suggest that the colours remain the same, but red
> category links simply don't take you to an editing page?
>
> This would solve the main problem I think. The point is that categories 
> can
> still be used even if they are red, so I want to be able to view a 
> category
> (from a link) without it taking me to an edit box. I just want to see the
> members. Everything else about the category remains the same - it is 
> classed
> as a wanted page, etc., the link simply just doesn't automatically go into
> editing. I think this solution gets the best of both worlds.
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