On 10/12/06, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
We could give *all* red links a different URL than other editing methods. Then we could check blocked status when the red link URL is requested, and display an edit form or error message as necessary.
That sounds good actually. Red link meaning "edit this new page" has a cute wikiness about it, but can be fairly impractical. If we did this, we could also implement some kind of last-ditch attempt to locate the page with searching. Thus, avoiding the problem where a redlink caused by incorrect case (eg, [[foo city]] instead of [[Foo City]]) ends up as a duplicate article...
Steve