Last modified: 2010-01-23 01:33:51 UTC
For ***text browsers, and Firefox when you turn off ALT V Y N (stylesheets)***, every edit page on the English Wikipedia (and maybe other) shows a 'Page notice'. E.g., for the above URL, it is http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Editnotices/Page/One_(David_Karp_novel)&action=edit&redlink=1 ... a redlink of all things! Here's the useless HTML. One sees it tries to hide in a "display none", I thought that was already decided as a bad thing to do. Just don't inject it if you don't want to splatter it into search engines and peoples text browsers, phones, etc. <!-- start content --> <div id="editnotice-area" class="editnotice-area" style="clear: both; width: 100%;"><div class="editnotice-link editnotice-redlink sysop-show accountcreator-show" style="margin: 0px 0.8em; padding: 0pt; clear: both; float: right; line-height: 1em; display: none;"> <small><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template:Editnotices/Page/One_%28David_Karp_novel%29&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template:Editnotices/Page/One (David Karp novel) (page does not exist)">Page notice</a>
The html in question is generated by {{Editnotice load/core}} on wikipedia. ({{Editnotice load}} is loaded at the top of all pages (via [[MediaWiki:Editnotice-0]]), which calls the Editnotice_load/core, which generates the hidden red link. Presumably the point of hiding like that is to show it to some users (Sysops) who can create edit-notices, while hiding from people who can't. (if thats a good idea or not is debatable) In any case, this does not seem like a mediawiki bug, rather a wikipedia template bug, complaints should probably be brought up at [[template:Editnotice load/core]] Suggest closing as invalid.
Changing products/Components back, as per Bawolff's reasoning.
Thanks Bawolff for adding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Editnotice_load/core#Bugzilla:22236_-_creating_display:none_redlinks_are_a_bad_idea_in_some_people.27s_minds
