On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Roan Kattouw roan.kattouw@gmail.com wrote:
2009/10/1 Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org:
I'm pretty sure the usability kids have something to this effect up their sleeves, hiding somewhere.
Sort of. We have a link insertion dialog that shows title suggestions and page existence status as you type in our Babaco release, which should be deployed very soon, and we have ideas about adding a link preview to that dialog. We originally envisaged "link preview" to mean a preview of what the actual link looks like, but having a preview of the linked-to page, if it exists, sounds like an interesting idea. I've forwarded the original post to the rest of our team, and I'll point them to the rest of this thread as well.
Meanwhile, I wrote a simple JS that tells you when the cursor (in edit mode) is within a "red link", or if it's a disambiguation page, it offers "replace-links" to click on. That should answer the problem of the OP. Could do redirects as well, but didn't want to overload it...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/linkfixr.js
Cheers, Magnus