[WikiEN-l] Civility poll results

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On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com>wrote:

> The problem is getting the software to tell people that click on a
> redlink that a draft exists. And then how to avoid discouraging people
> from writing their own stub instead (the answer being that they should
> write their own stub and the draft in user space will have missed out,
> or need to be added later).
>
> Redirects to draftspace would be undesirable for several reasons.
>
> Carcharoth
>


Cross-namespace redirects would be undesirable, but a classic task for a bot
to deal with (simple, uniform, machine managable).

The other one's fairly easy too. Edit [[MediaWiki:Noarticletext]] and add
something to the effect:


{{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}|0|You can
[[Special:Search/intitle:{{PAGENAME}}+namespace:999|search for a draft of
this article]] or for [[Special:Search/{{PAGENAME}}+namespace:999|drafts
mentioning "{{PAGENAME}}"]], or [[Draft:{{PAGENAME}}|start a draft page
yourself]] if you are new to Wikipedia|}}.......

*Translation:* If the page a user has tried to access but doesn't exist, is
in mainspace, then offer then options to search for drafts where the title
includes the term or which mention the term in the draft, or create the
draft in draftspace as [[Draft:PAGENAME]].

This is in addition of course to usual options which would then continue:
"If you are experienced at editing and wish to directly create an article
without a draft..."

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