Magnus Manske wrote:
On Lee's test site (http://www.piclab.com/wikitest/wiki.phtml), I have patched the stub detector so that /when the stub detector is active/, it will also show links to redirects with a yellowish background.
Should I use that on the live software
- not at all
- only when the stub detector is activated
- for all logged-in users as an user option, off by default
- for everybody
It's cute, and I can see it being handy at times. But, I think in general I'd find it very distracting; the only time it matters to see if a link goes via a redirect is when you're moving pages (or cleaning up after old botched moves).
The stub detector, on the other hand, tells me something very basic and always applicable: whether the link I'm following goes to a page that's so small it might be useless (if I'm looking for detailed info, maybe I'll skip it; if I'm looking to edit, I know it needs work).
They should be separately configurable; I would vote for #3 if it's kept.
Oh -- another thing; I notice the stub link marker doesn't do its magic in Recentchanges. I suppose it would add a teensy bit to the db lookup, but it might be nice.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)