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