On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2009/10/1 Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
I'm pretty sure the usability kids have
something to this effect up
their sleeves, hiding somewhere.
Sort of. We have a link insertion dialog that shows title suggestions
and page existence status as you type in our Babaco release, which
should be deployed very soon, and we have ideas about adding a link
preview to that dialog. We originally envisaged "link preview" to mean
a preview of what the actual link looks like, but having a preview of
the linked-to page, if it exists, sounds like an interesting idea.
I've forwarded the original post to the rest of our team, and I'll
point them to the rest of this thread as well.
Meanwhile, I wrote a simple JS that tells you when the cursor (in edit
mode) is within a "red link", or if it's a disambiguation page, it
offers "replace-links" to click on. That should answer the problem of
the OP. Could do redirects as well, but didn't want to overload it...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/linkfixr.js
Cheers,
Magnus