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Nonexistant Special Page error page should link to Special:Specialpages
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Author: creidieki+wikibugs

Description:
Currently, if a user on the en Wikipedia attempts to go to a nonexistant special
page, they get an error page reading

"
You have requested a special page that is not recognized by Wikipedia.

Return to [[Main Page]].
"

I think it would be more natural to offer to take them to a list of all valid
special pages. I know that there's a "Special Pages" link in the lefthand
toolbox, but they're going to be looking at the Error page, and that's the
natural place to put a link.

I'd imagine something like

"
You have requested a special page that is not recognized by Wikipedia.

You may go to a [[Special:Specialpages|List of all valid Special Pages]], or
[[Main Page|Return to the Main Page]].

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Hooray

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Reference
bz2016

Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 8:27 PM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Special-pages.
• bzimport set Reference to bz2016.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
• bzimport created this task.Apr 29 2005, 5:05 AM
• bzimport added a comment.Apr 29 2005, 5:58 AM

Michael.Keppler wrote:

Have some admin edit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Nospecialpagetext to
solve the problem for en Wikipedia. I agree that the default text of the message
should also be changed, therefore leaving this bug as enhancement request.

David_Gerard added a comment.Apr 30 2005, 11:24 PM

This has been fixed by en:User:Rdsmith4 and this can be closed.

• bzimport added a comment.May 1 2005, 7:28 PM

creidieki+wikibugs wrote:

I'd like to reopen this. The page was fixed on the English Wikipedia, but I
think that these changes should be made to the default text as well. The new
version is more helpful to users.

• bzimport added a comment.May 14 2005, 6:01 PM

avarab wrote:

Changed it to "You have requested an invalid special page, a list of valid
special pages may be found at [[{{ns:special}}:Specialpages]]." in HEAD.

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