On Thursday 26 July 2007 01:57:23 jidanni(a)jidanni.org wrote:
Let's find all the empty help etc. page links that
come with
MediaWiki.
This problem has been already adressed by me and others and partly solved in
the past but solving it entirely is a quite time consuming task.
I did adress this problem with various efforts:
* Plain MediaWiki (without extensions) only allows this list of page links:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration_settings#Page_customizat…
This is already a big reduction compared to the state before.
* Any MediaWiki system message should link other (non-special) pages only if
really needed.
*
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2007-January/029298.html
*
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8846 but more languages need
to be done. There are even horrible failures like linking lokalised namespace
names instead of the canonical ones.
Special:Wantedpages doesn't tell the whole story.
There are tons of
empty help page links that the user will stumble into. I wish to track
them down and fill them in before users stumble into them.
Missing pages linked by MediaWiki messages that are only transcluded from the
system messages into the MediaWiki namespace do not show up in
Special:Wantedpages.
languages/messages/Messages*.php in the section that
start with
"# All link text and link target definitions of links"
Wait, maybe instead of redirecting them, I just should edit
Mediawiki:edithelppage etc. to point to my single Project:Help.
This was introduced by me but still needs to be applied to all language files.
Anyway, first I must assemble a list of which ones are
actually
missing. I suppose I must probe their URLs.
No, I don't want to really fill in every different helpful help page,
but instead just link them to my monolithic single help page.
That's why thee are link definition pages. You don't need to touch every
single message but just a couple of link definition pages if the
Messages*.php file is correct.
Anyways I really could need any helping hand in order to apply this to all
remaining message files.
Cheers, Arnomane