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Make "Special:Home_page" on en.Wikipedia
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Description

Feature summary

[[Special:Home page]] on en.Wikipedia should work as an alias or (soft?) redirect to [[Special:Homepage]].

Use case(s)

[[Special:Homepage]] is particularly targeted at new users; who are likely to misremember the page name as [[Special:Home page]] (with a space); particularly if they are familiar with [[Special:Main page]] (again, note space).

Experienced users who mentor new users may also misremember the title, for similar reasons.

This may apply also to projects other than en.Wikipedia, particularly if they also use English; or for other projects where the translated name of the equivalent page uses two concatenated words.

Benefits (why should this be implemented?):

Event Timeline

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We don't do this for any other special pages.

There is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges. There is no https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Recent_Changes and there is no https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Recent_changes. Same applies to many other pages.

who are likely to misremember the page name

Are there anecdotes or data for this assumption?

particularly if they are familiar with [[Special:Main page]] (again, note space).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Main_page says "No such special page" for me. Do I miss some permissions for something?

We don't do this for any other special pages.

Time we started, then.

who are likely to misremember the page name

Are there anecdotes or data for this assumption?

It happened to me, today. I've seen others mistype it.

Also, the Wikipedia article is at [[Home page]], with a redirect at [[Homepage]].

particularly if they are familiar with [[Special:Main page]] (again, note space).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Main_page says "No such special page" for me. Do I miss some permissions for something?

Sorry, should be [[Main page]]; but point stands.

Bugreporter2 subscribed.

We don't do this for any other special pages.

Time we started, then.

FWIW, I agree. Special pages should be aliased to anything that's likely to be entered or linked to instead.

Urbanecm_WMF subscribed.

Personally, I don't have any objections here. However, if we are to go ahead with this, we should do it systematically (with other english-language special pages in mind).

Reopened. Not a duplicate.

particularly if they are familiar with [[Special:Main page]] (again, note space).

@Pigsonthewing Can you clarify this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/special:Main_page doesn't lead anywhere (and neither does https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MainPage).

particularly if they are familiar with [[Special:Main page]] (again, note space).

@Pigsonthewing Can you clarify this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/special:Main_page doesn't lead anywhere (and neither does https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MainPage).

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T406414#11243836