Hey @MattCleinman , I recall you saying you'd share possible ways we could address this that is low effort for you all, so we are not going to touch this til we have that insight

Example of how it could be handled (blue/green for all additions):

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tristan_Harris&type=revision&diff=869206796&oldid=838535912

@scblr I'm not sure I understand how this would help this situation - doesn't that link compare two versions, and this situation is talking about when there is only one version of the page?

A couple solutions, if we're trying to fix this without getting too elegant:

1. A very simple solution would be to just pop a dialog box and say "first revision" or something similar.
2. Another option would be to just go to the actual article.

Both would be fairly easy to implement (I believe), if we're looking for a solution that is "better than a 404 error yet very simple to do".

@MattCleinman

I'm not sure I understand how this would help this situation - doesn't that link compare two versions, and this situation is talking about when there is only one version of the page?

I was thinking about something like this for the first revision:

Compared to nothing, everything is an addition. It’d reuse the existing interface.

Let’s discuss in planning, ok?

For simplicity, we're going to go with a top half of the screen, but instead of green text we say something like "The first edit of [article name]".

@scblr @JTannerWMF I've found a way™ to show a "diff" of the initial revision. However, the rest of the screen needs to have the same structure as before, like this:

How's that?

This looks ideal to me @Dbrant 👏

@Dbrant Maybe you're already doing that, but just in case: I think the "Undo" button should also be greyed out/hidden, since you can't exactly revert a page creation. Other than that, I think this looks very good.

Looks good to me on 2.7.50404-r-2022-06-07