[Mediawiki-l] [Foundation-l] Red category link is unhelpful
Roger Chrisman
roger at rogerchrisman.com
Wed Apr 4 01:31:16 UTC 2007
Jim Wilson wrote:
> I agree with making a MW system message or $wg control this - but
> which should be the default? Edit or view?
View
Not "Edit." Category pages do not need edited "content" to be useful
although defining the category with a sentence or two can help. The
useful content of a category pages is instead the auto generated list
of pages that contain that category's tag, eg
[[Category:Category-name-here]].
*Regular pages* do and should send users to the Edit page automatically
if the page is empty but category pages are never "empty" -- they
always contain their auto-generated note at minimum and should not open
an edit box needlessly. The edit box confuses folks who simply want to
read the auto-generated list of links.
Roger Chrisman
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