I think more user friendly warning would be better.
Using dev jargon like Foo:Foo:Bar. 'Foo:Foo would not be appropriate since most of the wiki users are not developers.
If the namespace drop-down menu at Special:MovePage is a misfeature what would be a better fix?
Best Regards,
Shanika Ediriweera Undergraduate Dept. of Computer Science & Eng. University of Moratuwa
On 21 February 2017 at 08:47, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Shanika Ediriweera wrote:
I am working on the task "When moving, warn if people try to move to Foo:Foo:Bar (repeated namespace)" - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T62399 .
What would be a good alert message for the users when there is repeated namespace in title?
Maybe something like this:
"Please verify your new page title: Foo:Foo:Bar. 'Foo:Foo:' in a page title is usually a mistake."
But the deeper issue is https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T50239. The namespace drop-down menu at Special:MovePage is a misfeature.
MZMcBride
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