On 05/03/12 00:00, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
Hi,
In 1.19 a dropdown was added to Special:MovePage for selecting a namespace. This new feature doesn't disturb me personally, but a few users in the Hebrew Wikipedia complained about it, saying that it causes users confusion. I don't have numbers, but the regular followers of the move logs said that in the days since the upgrade there was a higher number of mistakes because of this new feature.
I think the feature should be reverted.
In the <title>, <h1>, links, URLs and lots of other places in MediaWiki, page titles are presented as a single string. This is about the closest thing we have to a title concept in MediaWiki. We have namespace filters in a few places, but the full title is always shown in the results list.
This move page feature seems confused about how MediaWiki users think about titles. It would make sense in a wiki engine like Confluence, where page titles are normally abbreviated, but it doesn't make sense in MediaWiki.
-- Tim Starling