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Add target link to MediaWiki:Articleexists
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If you try to move a page to a name that already exists, there is an error page :en:MediaWiki:Articleexists, but it does not contain a link to a target page. I believe it would be useful to add a parameter $target with the target name, so that the link can be added.

The reason why we need such a link is that sometimes there is a problem: if I would like, for example, to move :en:Russian Empire to :en:Russian empire, then I can not just enter a target name :en:Russian empire into search field as it will be automatically corrected to a name of the existing page :en:Russian Empire, thus I should do more actions to open this page.

The idea of such a link was approved on Russian Wikipedia's technical forum, see :ru:ВП:ФТ#Переименование в существующее название.

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Add target page as a parameter to `articleexists` messagemediawiki/coremaster+7 -7
Customize query in gerrit

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Wikisaurus created this task.Jan 6 2018, 10:40 PM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Articleexists is custom enwp only.

The MediaWiki default can be found at https://translatewiki.net/wiki/MediaWiki:Articleexists/en
If you'd like to change the default, a software patch would have to update places where articleexists is used in MediaWiki core.

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gerritbot added a comment.Oct 15 2019, 8:52 PM

Change 543213 had a related patch set uploaded (by DannyS712; owner: DannyS712):
[mediawiki/core@master] Add target page as a parameter to articleexists message

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/543213

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Would core platform team be willing to take a look at the provided patch?

Anomie edited projects, added Platform Team Workboards (Clinic Duty Team); removed Platform Engineering.Dec 16 2019, 2:19 PM
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Anomie moved this task from External Code Review Needed to External Code Review In Progress on the Platform Team Workboards (Clinic Duty Team) board.Dec 19 2019, 3:43 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Jan 2 2020, 9:08 PM

Change 543213 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@master] Add target page as a parameter to articleexists message

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/543213

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DannyS712 closed this task as Resolved.Jan 2 2020, 11:27 PM

Confirmed to work on the beta cluster

DannyS712 added a project: User-notice.Jan 3 2020, 12:12 AM
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Suggest adding this to the next tech news

DannyS712 moved this task from External Code Review In Progress to External Code Review Completed on the Platform Team Workboards (Clinic Duty Team) board.Jan 3 2020, 12:14 AM

Assuming code review can be marked as completed, since the patch was merged

• Quiddity subscribed.Jan 3 2020, 8:09 PM

@DannyS712 How would you summarize this new feature for Tech News? IIUC, something like...

Changes this week:
If you try to move a page to a title that already exists, there will now be a direct link to that existing title.

DannyS712 added a comment.Jan 3 2020, 11:30 PM
In T184357#5774577, @Quiddity wrote:

@DannyS712 How would you summarize this new feature for Tech News? IIUC, something like...

Changes this week:
If you try to move a page to a title that already exists, there will now be a direct link to that existing title.

What about When trying to move a page, if the target title exists, the warning message will include a link to the target?

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