The Android Wikipedia app shows Wikipedia's red links as blue links, then returns a user-unfriendly 404 error page, with the somewhat dishonest text "an unknown error occurred".
Alternative, and better, behaviours would be one of (in no particular order):
* Show a red link; behave like desktop Wikipedia
* Show a red link; when the link is selected, show a customised 404 page, which advises users how start a new article
* Show red text, but make it non linking (i.e. "unclickable")
* Remove the link and colour-styling, and render ordinary text
* Fix the erorr page so it says "Sorry, that page does not exist", with a link to a guide to starting a new article
Hello! Thank you for the report! This issue is currently being tracked here[0]. We had hoped to fix this properly but maybe we should consider a temporary change in the client to handle this more gracefully.
[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119266
On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 4:21 AM, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
The Android Wikipedia app shows Wikipedia's red links as blue links, then returns a user-unfriendly 404 error page, with the somewhat dishonest text "an unknown error occurred".
Alternative, and better, behaviours would be one of (in no particular order):
Show a red link; behave like desktop Wikipedia
Show a red link; when the link is selected, show a customised 404
page, which advises users how start a new article
Show red text, but make it non linking (i.e. "unclickable")
Remove the link and colour-styling, and render ordinary text
Fix the erorr page so it says "Sorry, that page does not exist",
with a link to a guide to starting a new article
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
Please also note the parent bug and rfc which blocks that. I've cced wikitech in case anyone has an update.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T39902 On 3 Aug 2016 5:14 a.m., "Stephen Niedzielski" sniedzielski@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello! Thank you for the report! This issue is currently being tracked here[0]. We had hoped to fix this properly but maybe we should consider a temporary change in the client to handle this more gracefully.
[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119266
On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 4:21 AM, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
The Android Wikipedia app shows Wikipedia's red links as blue links, then returns a user-unfriendly 404 error page, with the somewhat dishonest text "an unknown error occurred".
Alternative, and better, behaviours would be one of (in no particular order):
Show a red link; behave like desktop Wikipedia
Show a red link; when the link is selected, show a customised 404
page, which advises users how start a new article
Show red text, but make it non linking (i.e. "unclickable")
Remove the link and colour-styling, and render ordinary text
Fix the erorr page so it says "Sorry, that page does not exist",
with a link to a guide to starting a new article
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l