Last modified: 2014-05-15 08:29:29 UTC
If we allow [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Main Page|incoming links]] and [[Special:Movepage/Main Page|moving]] and [[Special:Recentchangeslinked/Main Page|related changes]] using special page internal wiki links, then can we please also have [[Special:History/Main Page|history]] and [[Special:Edit/Main Page|editing]], because: * on the Wikipedia, everyone can check history, and everyone can edit (most pre-existing pages), but not everyone can move (e.g. anons) * for greater completeness * I trust internal links more than I trust external links, and at the moment I think people have no choice but to use external links for these things * it feels right ;-)
I'm not convinced that this is needed; we have, e.g. [{{fullurl:Page|action=edit}} edit].
Yes, but that's not an internal link (duh!) I completely agree with Nick here. At least let the Special:Edit/Main_Page be alias to index.php?title=Main_Page&action=edit.
(In reply to comment #1) > I'm not convinced that this is needed; we have, e.g. > [{{fullurl:Page|action=edit}} edit]. Most of the people don't know this syntax and use the full URL copied from the browser's address line instead. Besides, as been said in comment #2, it's rendered as an external link although it's in fact internal.
Another benefit: Currently, all edit/history links are also shown in Special:Linksearch which makes hard to find direct URLs to replace them by interwiki. Having edit/history accessible via internal links, this list would be much much smaller.
[[Special:Purge/page]] would be handy as well...
bug 6908 related
*** Bug 12445 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #5) > [[Special:Purge/page]] would be handy as well... I guess also Special:Delete, Special:Raw. Probably most of these would be special pages, if special pages were part of the software from the start. If we were going to do this, should we make them the default links for these actions, and have action=edit redirect? Probably too breaking. A (dis)advantage to consider would be that practically all URLs generated could then be prettified. Currently we use a simple hack to stop spiders from viewing anything in /w, for instance, which would no longer work reliably if people linked to Special:Edit (etc.) a lot.
(In reply to comment #8) > (In reply to comment #5) > > [[Special:Purge/page]] would be handy as well... > > I guess also Special:Delete, Special:Raw. Probably most of these would be > special pages, if special pages were part of the software from the start. If > we were going to do this, should we make them the default links for these > actions, and have action=edit redirect? Probably too breaking. I'd say we make Special:Edit redirect to action=edit for backwards compatibility. It would also be easier to implement, I think. > A (dis)advantage to consider would be that practically all URLs generated could > then be prettified. Currently we use a simple hack to stop spiders from > viewing anything in /w, for instance, which would no longer work reliably if > people linked to Special:Edit (etc.) a lot. Would that still apply if Special:Edit just 302'ed to /w/index.php?action=edit ?
(In reply to comment #8) > (In reply to comment #5) > > [[Special:Purge/page]] would be handy as well... > > I guess also Special:Delete, Special:Raw. Maybe it should be generalized to [[Special:Action/edit/Page]], [[Special:Action/purge/Page]], etc.?
(In reply to comment #9) > Would that still apply if Special:Edit just 302'ed to /w/index.php?action=edit > ? I don't know. (In reply to comment #10) > Maybe it should be generalized to [[Special:Action/edit/Page]], > [[Special:Action/purge/Page]], etc.? I don't like that, it's inconsistent. Nothing unifies the actions in question logically. We would have [[Special:Action/delete]] but [[Special:Undelete]]. Better to be consistent. Bug 10457 would be good to fix first, though.
Change 96170 had a related patch set uploaded by Legoktm: Add Special:Edit and Special:History which redirect to their action equivalents https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/96170
(In reply to comment #12) > Change 96170 had a related patch set uploaded by Legoktm: > Add Special:Edit and Special:History which redirect to their action > equivalents > > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/96170 This is probably controversial. Some people have strong views about whether we should move toward Special pages or ?action= URLs. And for both options, there are differing views about implementation: for example, Special:Action/edit/page_title or wiki.org/edit/page_title. Plus we now have complicating factors like Wikidata and VisualEditor and Flow to consider, where an "edit" means something almost entirely different.
(In reply to comment #13) > This is probably controversial. Some people have strong views about whether > we > should move toward Special pages or ?action= URLs. And for both options, > there > are differing views about implementation: for example, > Special:Action/edit/page_title or wiki.org/edit/page_title. This patch just adds in redirects, so users still go to ?action=edit. Even if Special:Action/edit/Foo became the eventual destination, you would want Special:Edit/Foo to end up there. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Drop_actions_in_favour_of_page_views_and_special_pages seems rather dead. I even named the classes "SpecialEditRedirect" instead of "SpecialEdit" in case we decide to make it a special page in the future. > Plus we now have complicating factors like Wikidata and VisualEditor and Flow > to consider, where an "edit" means something almost entirely different. True. I think those are edge cases though, and don't make the special pages less useful for wikis/pages not using Wikibase/Flow. VE is interesting because some users go to ?veaction=edit instead of ?action=edit. I'm not sure there's an easy way to handle this, will think about it.
I agree. As confusing as it is that some actions are special pages and other actions are WikiPage Actions, at least we don't have one redirecting to the other. I don't think just adding these redirects will achieve any gain other than it being slightly easier to type in wikitext. As for external links, urls should be stable enough. There's already been talk about phasing out interwiki prefixes in favour of external links (something I would support). (In reply to comment #14) > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/ > Drop_actions_in_favour_of_page_views_and_special_pages > seems rather dead. > True, but I think if we're spending any more time on this, let's spend it on that instead. (In reply to comment #14) > VE is interesting because some users go to ?veaction=edit instead of > ?action=edit. I'm not sure there's an easy way to handle this, will think > about > it. I think we should have something like ?editor, which would default based on preference. So linking to action=edit would show the default editor for you. And editor=visualeditor, editor=wikieditor or editor=classic would show one of VisualEditor HTML editor, WikiEditor wikitext editor or classic toolbar wikitext editor respectively. And most links should link to action=edit without an editor parameter, thus showing whatever the canonical default is for the current user or wiki.
Change 96170 abandoned by Legoktm: Add Special:Edit and Special:History which redirect to their action equivalents Reason: Needs work, also not sure this is a good idea anymore. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/96170
