Author: stanley
Description:
Could you make a small warning when user creating or editing orphaned/lonely
pages? something like "warning, you are editing orphaned page. it is possible
that this page would never be read or found" .
The intention is to make the editor aware of this and urge him to make link to
it from another page.
Version: 1.6.x
Severity: enhancement
robchur wrote:
Or something like, "Note: No pages presently link to this page. After creating
it, you should add [[Help:Link|links]] to it from relevant pages."
stanley wrote:
The warning must also appears when the page in editing mode (if it is still an
orphan page).
What's the point of a warning? You have to jump through hoops just to get there,
you should already know you're doing the wrong thing.
stanley wrote:
The frequency of people creating new articles just by typing it in url is quite
high in id.wikipedia. This lead to a lot of orphan pages.
robchur wrote:
He has a point, mind...if you type in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_article_does_not_exist, then you will be
informed of the fact it doesn't, and receive the option to edit it. You will
also usually be reminded to search to ensure you're not creating a redundant page.
stanley wrote:
My point exactly.
some articles.
match. User suggested to begin create the article.