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

[Rob Church]

On 04/04/07, Platonides <Platonides at gmail.com> wrote:
> Only if they click on red links more times to create the category pages
> than to see articles on the inexistent category. If they do the later
> they're doing an extra click.

You get the contents in the edit view for free, so it's one click to do both.

> However, if it is changed, the red links should be changed to "a
> different red" to add a visual difference, not only explaining red links
> on pages do X, red links on category do Y... (then even more confusing
> if it's reverted).

Two reds? What a nightmare!

> A similar <s>problem</s>feature which annoys me are red image links.
> When i click on it i want to go to the image page, where i have nice
> links to see the delete log, undelete it and know why this image
> "disappeared".. Not uploading it! (for which the Image: have links, anyway)
> Alas, "The feature was added for a reason (making it easier and more
> consistent to upload), and will stay without some good reason."

Red links lead to edit pages. This is a convention we've established
in the user interface, and I don't see a great reason to change it.
Sure, it's a bit inconvenient clicking a category name and getting an
edit page, but you can still see the contents of the category.


Rob Church