[Wikipedia-l] Redirect detector

[Brion VIBBER]

Magnus Manske wrote:
> On Lee's test site (http://www.piclab.com/wikitest/wiki.phtml), I have 
> patched the stub detector so that /when the stub detector is active/, it 
> will also show links to redirects with a yellowish background.
> 
> Should I use that on the live software
> 1. not at all
> 2. only when the stub detector is activated
> 3. for all logged-in users as an user option, off by default
> 4. for everybody

It's cute, and I can see it being handy at times. But, I think in 
general I'd find it very distracting; the only time it matters to see if 
a link goes via a redirect is when you're moving pages (or cleaning up 
after old botched moves).

The stub detector, on the other hand, tells me something very basic and 
always applicable: whether the link I'm following goes to a page that's 
so small it might be useless (if I'm looking for detailed info, maybe 
I'll skip it; if I'm looking to edit, I know it needs work).

They should be separately configurable; I would vote for #3 if it's kept.

Oh -- another thing; I notice the stub link marker doesn't do its magic 
in Recentchanges. I suppose it would add a teensy bit to the db lookup, 
but it might be nice.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)