On 4/7/06, Rotem Liss mail@rotemliss.com wrote:
If you mean http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5073, the problem was the categories' links color became blue, and we cannot see whether we've misspelled the category or not. However, there is no problem changing the red links to the categories to point the page rather than the edit view.
Except.
1) Until you edit the category page, it doesn't exist, this is no different than putting a link in a page to any other page which doesn't exist.
2) The reason the link is red is because it points to a non-existant page.
3) The contents of category pages is not just to explain the category name, but to categorize the category so as to form a hierarchy, so "self describing" category like "biology" should still be put into a higher level category like "sciences". This requires human interaction.
4) The red category link is an indication that either: a) This is a newish category which hasn't yet been categorized itself or b) The category name was mistyped.
In either case the red link is an indication that something needs to be done manually to make the link blue. Generating a blank category page removes this symptom of a problem which is why folks seemed to disturbed when this was changed, and why the change was backed out.
-- Rick DeNatale
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