Last modified: 2013-04-22 16:16:31 UTC
When you visit <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_page?action=info>, it's not very simple to understand that this page is a redirect and that consequently the data presented pertains to the redirect page, it does not pertain to the target of the redirect. This isn't a huge problem, but it can be a bit disorienting, I think. (It'll be even less of a problem when this action has some UI exposure. Manually created URLs are cruel.) Somehow, I think the redirect status of a page should be displayed in the info action's output. Maybe with another row in the table (Page is redirect: True), maybe with italics, I don't really know. I suppose one could have something like "Page status" where it would read: * redirect * content page * subpage? * non-existent? [deleted?] Not sure. This needs thought.
I'm not sure about subpage. A page could be redirect and sub at the same time, or content and sub at the same time. It's also not very useful as you should be able to see a subpage based on the page name. As for non-existing pages, Gerrit change #22880 shows "The target page you have specified does not exist." instead of anything else. I think we should have two separate rows: "Redirects to another page" - "Yes"/"No" "Counted as a content page" - "Yes"/"No"
(In reply to comment #1) > I think we should have two separate rows: > "Redirects to another page" - "Yes"/"No" > "Counted as a content page" - "Yes"/"No" Oh, heh. I didn't mean "content" in the "is this considered a content page by MediaWiki's weird standards?", I mostly just meant "not a redirect page". But sure, what you propose sounds great. I guess both would go under "Basic information"?
I'll do this but I'm going to wait for comment on boolean property messages in Gerrit change #27019 patch set 1 first.
Okay, so I've rethought this and decided to go with this: If it redirects to somewhere else: "Redirects to" - (link to page) If it's counted as a content page: "Counted as a content page" - "Yes" Gerrit change #27125
