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Add aliases for `Special:Purge`
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Feature summary:

Add aliases for Special:Purge

Use case(s):

Many other special pages have the form verb+object, or verb. It's inconsistent and users may guess wrong if they haven't memorised the names of special pages. In the case of purge, we can talk about "purging the cache" or "purging the page" or even "purging the page cache."

Good first task

There's only a minor change required here to languages / messages / MessagesEn.php to add these aliases. It's literally a change to one line of code to add it to the array:

	'Purge'                      => [ 'Purge' ],

Currently at line 522 to:

	'Purge'                      => [ 'Purge', 'PurgeCache', 'PurgePage', 'PurgePageCache' ],

Details

Related Changes in Gerrit:
SubjectRepoBranchLines +/-
[core] Add aliases for `Special:Purge`mediawiki/coremaster+1 -1
Customize query in gerrit

Event Timeline

Bugreporter2 created this task.Tue, May 19, 3:59 AM
Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptTue, May 19, 3:59 AM
VadymTS1 claimed this task.Tue, May 19, 6:00 AM
gerritbot added a comment.Tue, May 19, 6:01 AM

Change #1289156 had a related patch set uploaded (by VadymTS1; author: VadymTS1):

[mediawiki/core@master] [core] Add aliases for `Special:Purge`

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1289156

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Tue, May 19, 6:01 AM
Aklapper added a project: MediaWiki-General.Tue, May 19, 7:02 AM

It's inconsistent and users may guess wrong

Is this based on data or is this an assumption? Has someone asked for these longer names due to not remembering the original short page name?
I'm not a fan of adding more complexity, maintenance costs, increased ambiguity in conversations about the same special page for no clear reasons.

Pppery awarded a token.Tue, May 19, 3:29 PM
Pppery subscribed.

Agreed with Aklapper.

Pppery edited projects, added: MediaWiki-Special-pages; removed: MediaWiki-General.Tue, May 19, 3:34 PM
Pppery moved this task from To triage to Other special pages on the MediaWiki-Special-pages board.
Dragoniez awarded a token.Tue, May 19, 6:28 PM
VadymTS1 added a comment.Wed, May 20, 6:54 AM

@Aklapper @Bugreporter2 My patch is loaded, please let me know if I need to abandon it.

neriah closed this task as Declined.Thu, May 28, 2:11 PM
neriah subscribed.

According to what @Aklapper said above, there is no support for the change.

@VadymTS1 I think you can abandon the patch.

Bugreporter2 reopened this task as Open.Thu, May 28, 10:02 PM
Bugreporter2 awarded a token.

Please don't listen to that.

Pppery closed this task as Declined.Thu, May 28, 10:10 PM

There is clearly consensus against doing this.

Bugreporter2 rescinded a token.Thu, May 28, 10:33 PM
Bugreporter2 awarded a token.

The usual klaptrap. Special:PurgePage is required as a minimum.

gerritbot added a comment.Fri, May 29, 4:51 AM

Change #1289156 abandoned by VadymTS1:

[mediawiki/core@master] [core] Add aliases for `Special:Purge`

Reason:

Phab ticket declined

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1289156

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Fri, May 29, 5:30 AM
Aklapper added a comment.Fri, May 29, 7:32 AM

@Bugreporter2 You could consider replying to raised concerns by picking them up and exchanging arguments; I listed a few in T426700#11934561 above.
What's best for the MediaWiki software and its userbase is usually unrelated to your favorite Donkey Kong characters. :) Thanks for considering.

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