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People that can't edit get confusing behaviour when they follow an edit link
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Description

When a user follows an edit link containing action=edit and has JavaScript enabled the editor is loaded.

When they do not have JavaScript enabled they get confusing behaviour in that the page is simply refreshed.

It would be useful to have an intermediate screen that

  • redirects the user to the editor when the editor is supported and they have JavaScript enabled
  • shows a noscript tag when they do not have JavaScript enabled telling them they cannot edit with a link back to the page.
  • When they have JavaScript enabled but do not support the editor it tells them their browser does not support editing with a link back to the page.

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement

Details

Reference
bz54475

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 22 2014, 2:11 AM
bzimport set Reference to bz54475.
bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

bingle-admin wrote:

Prioritization and scheduling of this bug is tracked on Mingle card https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/mobile/cards/1250

To be clear if a wiki page links to a page with action=edit in the query string and the label says "edit this page" in the mobile view the behaviour might be considered confusing.

Change 102923 had a related patch set uploaded by Theopolisme:
Add intermediate Special:MobileEditor to catch users without JavaScript

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/102923

Change 102923 merged by jenkins-bot:
Add intermediate Special:MobileEditor to catch users without JavaScript

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/102923