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Nonexistent category pages show useless preview on first edit
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Author: matthew.britton

Description:
When creating a category page that does not exist, a preview is always generated, as can be seen here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Some%_nonexistent_category?action=edit

This preview is completely useless, because the page does not exist. This happens with or without "Preview on first edit" enabled in preferences.

When creating pages in other namespaces, a preview is never generated on the first edit, even with "Preview on first edit" enabled in preferences.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Some_nonexistent_page?action=edit

Creating category pages should work the same as it does in other namespaces.

Version: unspecified
Severity: minor
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Some%20nonexistent%20category&action=edit

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bz18879

Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 10:43 PM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Categories.
• bzimport set Reference to bz18879.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
• bzimport created this task.May 22 2009, 8:06 PM
• bzimport added a comment.May 22 2009, 8:06 PM

matthew.britton wrote:

meh, first URL should be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Some_nonexistent_category?action=edit

• brion added a comment.May 26 2009, 9:44 PM

It's not useless, as it includes the pages in the category so that category links show useful information.

• bzimport added a comment.May 27 2009, 6:48 AM

matthew.britton wrote:

(In reply to comment #2)

It's not useless, as it includes the pages in the category so that category
links show useful information.

Could it show just those and not the "Remember that this is only a preview; your changes have not yet been saved!" warning message?

Jidanni added a comment.May 28 2009, 2:27 AM

The Reporter might have a look at my war on categories: bug 7897.

• bzimport added a comment.May 28 2009, 2:34 AM

matthew.britton wrote:

(In reply to comment #4)

The Reporter might have a look at my war on categories: bug 7897.

Don't see how that's related, that's about not giving red links the "edit" action by default in the category namespace, this is about not warning the user they haven't saved their changes yet when they haven't made any.

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