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Bug 15562 - History page has obvious unlinked hyperlink to Article in text browsers
History page has obvious unlinked hyperlink to Article in text browsers
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
History/Diffs (Other open bugs)
1.17.x
All All
: Normal trivial (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?t...
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Reported: 2008-09-11 13:04 UTC by Dan Jacobson
Modified: 2010-04-15 22:17 UTC (History)
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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---


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Description Dan Jacobson 2008-09-11 13:04:30 UTC
Gentlemen, please consider the situation in various devices that do
not load stylesheets, etc., e.g.:

$ lynx -dump -listonly http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wasp&action=history | grep wiki/Wasp
 412. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasp

This says that a person browsing a History page needs to dig out the
412th link, way at the bottom (navigation #column-one -> article) if
one wants to jump to the article itself.

So do consider a more prominent link right at the top.
(And no I'm not talking about the Article tab right at the top if one
uses Firefox, I.E., with all the stylesheets loaded, etc.)

Indeed, the answer is obvious and trivial:

Revision history of Talk:Wasp
     just have this ^^^^^^^^^ be a link!
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yes, for
  • Discussion
  • Edit this page
  • New section
  • Move
  • Watch
The will still need to go to #column-one (Views), but at least for
  • Article
they will now have a shortcut right at the top where the page name is
staring them in the face but is just not currently clickable.

(Indeed, I bet there are several other pages where the name of a page
is staring us in the face but is not clickable.)
Comment 1 Brion Vibber 2008-09-11 17:33:59 UTC
That's the title, not a link. Just as it's not a link when you're on the article or talk tabs, it's not a link on the history tab.
Comment 2 Dan Jacobson 2008-09-12 08:22:01 UTC
Regarding
<title>Revision history of Talk:Wasp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</title>
and
<h1 class="firstHeading">Revision history of Talk:Wasp</h1>
Can you please change the latter so the words Talk:Wasp also hyperlink to Talk:Wasp. Thank you.
Comment 3 Dan Jacobson 2008-09-13 01:03:15 UTC
Reopening bug because I'm just trying to say please hyperlink the words
<h1 class="firstHeading">Revision history of Talk:Wasp</h1>
here:                                        ^^^^^^^^^
just like if one used wikitext to write
==Revision history of [[Talk:Wasp]]==
Comment 4 Brion Vibber 2010-04-15 21:24:26 UTC
As noted in 2008, that's not a link, doesn't look like a link, and if added would duplicate other links. Closing INVALID as originally.
Comment 5 Dan Jacobson 2010-04-15 22:17:09 UTC
Never mind, us text browser users will just have to add one more click, to "Jump to: navigation" first.

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