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Bug 10185 - Add link to page without disambiguation when on page with disambiguation
Add link to page without disambiguation when on page with disambiguation
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Parser (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Lowest enhancement with 1 vote (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2007-06-07 12:35 UTC by Danny B.
Modified: 2011-03-13 18:05 UTC (History)
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Description Danny B. 2007-06-07 12:35:16 UTC 
There's a practical feature showing links to up-pages when on subpage:

eg. on page Wikipedia:Polls/2007/January you would see
< Wikipedia:Polls | 2007

if Wikipedia:Polls/2007 doesn't exist, you would see only
< Wikipedia:Polls


So this feature should behave same way:

eg. on page "Lorem ipsum (foo)" you would see link to "Lorem ipsum" (in case it exists)

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bug 7264 may be considered as related since it will use same principle of cutting out the disambiguation part
Comment 1 Danny B. 2007-06-07 14:05:36 UTC 
Please do not close bugs with WONTFIX without saying a word of reason. Thanks
Comment 2 Rob Church 2007-06-07 14:08:03 UTC 
It's pointless.
Comment 3 Rob Church 2007-06-07 14:19:53 UTC 
Oh, fuck it, I can't be bothered to fight.
Comment 4 Brion Vibber 2007-06-07 17:00:29 UTC 
This is currently left up to templates or other customizations. The software doesn't really have a clean concept of "disambiguation" itself.
Comment 5 Tomer Chachamu 2007-06-07 17:08:49 UTC 
(In reply to comment #4)
> This is currently left up to templates or other customizations. The software
> doesn't really have a clean concept of "disambiguation" itself.
> 

Well, maybe it would be more convenient for that behaviour to be changed. Then, editors wouldn't have to keep adding those article headers, "For the other bla, see [[Bla (disambiguation)]]".
Comment 6 Aryeh Gregor (not reading bugmail, please e-mail directly) 2007-06-07 23:52:36 UTC 
I'm very skeptical of how worthwhile it is to have this in the software.  It's not very general-appeal, given that enwiki's disambiguation style need hardly be universal.  It's already accommodated for by the pipe trick, but I'm leery of any more of that.  Besides, hatnotes are much more informative and useful, and it would be quite ridiculous to have [[1999 (disambiguation)]] with such a link.

I agree with WONTFIX.
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