Author: creidieki+wiki
Description:
If a user has redirects on their watchlist, the page "Special:Watchlist" should
provide links specifically to those redirect pages, i.e., with "redirect=no"
appended. Currently, clicking on the name of the redirect will take you to the
redirected article, which is confusing if you're trying to prune your watchlist.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
See Also:
wikipedia wrote:
This looks rather trivial to do, but the code that produces the links is shared
with recent changes and recent changes linked. The question is if we make the no
redirect change for this, should we do the same for those?
en.ABCD wrote:
(In reply to comment #1)
... The question is if we make the no
redirect change for this, should we do the same for those?
I think the answer to that is yes.
Michael.Keppler wrote:
Most people use the watchlist links to navigate to the page for reading it
(after it has changed). So having the redirection work is _expected_ behavior.
Closing as WONTFIX.
zigger wrote:
(In reply to comment #3)
Most people use the watchlist links to navigate to the page for reading it
(after it has changed). So having the redirection work is _expected_ behavior.
Reopening. Presumably, the redirect is listed because that is the page that
changed. Either behaviour allows either view with at most one extra click, but
using "redirect=no" makes the change more obvious.
gangleri wrote:
please compare with
bug 2318: Special:Allpages should mark redirects distinctly
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2318#c3
- An alternate way to mark the redirects could be to generate two links. The
main with &purge=no and beside it an arrow → for LTR and ← for RTL wiki's with
the link to the page where the redirect is pointing two.
Change 129871 had a related patch set uploaded by Withoutaname:
Append redirect=no to RecentChanges/Watchlist redirect entries
Change 129871 merged by jenkins-bot:
Append redirect=no to RecentChanges/Watchlist redirect entries