Hi all,
MediaWiki has a user setting to add a CSS class to article links whose length is
below a certain threshold (preferences/appearance/advanced options/threshold for
stub link formatting). Is it possible to enable this by default on a Wikimedia
wiki? Some of the advantages:
- a lot of editors seem to use it already to find articles which need some care,
and currently it slows down page loading for them because it breaks caching, so
they could work quicker.
- like red links, it could bring in new editors by making readers realize that
some of the linked articles need help.
- it could make readers waste less time because they could realize the article
is a stub without clicking at it.
On the other hand, I suppose it would raise database load because the length of
all linked pages would need to be queried at HTML generation. (Or is that query
already already necessary to see which links are red?)