Last modified: 2014-04-30 21:14:02 UTC
If a user has redirects on their watchlist, the page "Special:Watchlist" should provide links specifically to those redirect pages, i.e., with "redirect=no" appended. Currently, clicking on the name of the redirect will take you to the redirected article, which is confusing if you're trying to prune your watchlist.
This looks rather trivial to do, but the code that produces the links is shared with recent changes and recent changes linked. The question is if we make the no redirect change for this, should we do the same for those?
(In reply to comment #1) > ... The question is if we make the no > redirect change for this, should we do the same for those? I think the answer to that is yes.
Most people use the watchlist links to navigate to the page for reading it (after it has changed). So having the redirection work is _expected_ behavior. Closing as WONTFIX.
(In reply to comment #3) > Most people use the watchlist links to navigate to the page for reading it > (after it has changed). So having the redirection work is _expected_ behavior. Reopening. Presumably, the redirect is listed because that is the page that changed. Either behaviour allows either view with at most one extra click, but using "redirect=no" makes the change more obvious.
please compare with bug 2318: Special:Allpages should mark redirects distinctly http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2318#c3 > 1) An alternate way to mark the redirects could be to generate two links. The > main with &purge=no and beside it an arrow → for LTR and ← for RTL wiki's with > the link to the page where the redirect is pointing two.
Changing component to "Watchlist"
Anyone willing to fix this?
*** Bug 27600 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Change 129871 had a related patch set uploaded by Withoutaname: Append redirect=no to RecentChanges/Watchlist redirect entries https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/129871
Change 129871 merged by jenkins-bot: Append redirect=no to RecentChanges/Watchlist redirect entries https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/129871
\o/ TeleComNasSprVen, you fixed a three digit bug. Congratulations and thank you!
