[Mediawiki-l] [Foundation-l] Red category link is unhelpful

Frederik Dohr fdg001 at gmx.net
Tue Apr 3 21:57:51 UTC 2007


 From what I can tell, the benefits of this proposal far outweigh the 
potential disadvantages or the risk of a user backlash.

Just my two cents though...


-- F.


----- Original Message -----
From: Virgil Ierubino
Date: 2007-04-03 23:37
> Looking at this discussion I still think that the following is a very good
> no-fuss proposal:
> 
> Red category links view the category rather than editing the category.
> 
> This achieves everything that's already there, but also allows new users (or
> even old ones) to look at category members without passing through an edit
> page. That can be annoying, time-consuming or very confusing for new
> editors.
> 
> Does anyone think this might be a bad move?
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