Last modified: 2014-11-18 18:07:22 UTC
Some Wikipedias are for macrolanguages (e.g. Akan, Arabic, Quetchua) or language groups (e.g. Alemannic, Quetchua, Ripuarian) or languages laking a single, known, or fixed orthograpy (e.g. Azeri=Azerbaidjani, Belorussian, Gothic, Kernewek=Karnuak, Kurdi, Plattdüütsch, Serbian) All these may need to have above average redirects so as to accomodate spelling or dialectal variants of words. These redirects more often than not collate to clusters of identical targets under very similarly spelt names. Working through the lists generated bySpecial:Allpages, and Special:Prefixindex, which must tediously be read zig-zag rather quickly top-down, is unpleasant and error-prone. It is possible to css display:none the redirects, which is maybe more workable but certainly not pretty. Best Solution so far to me is, to add a checkbox saying: [ ] hide redirects to the initial selection page. Its default should be off, which does not change the current default behaviour.
Would it be worth extending this to all query pages, too, except where the purpose of said page makes doing so illogical, e.g. hiding redirects on Special:Listredirects is a *wee* bit FITH.
I concur. This would be a rather good feature, should one make it.
Is any chance for implementing such feature?
Another solution would be to change the color of the redirects, as is done on [[fr:MediaWiki:Common.css|fr.wiki]], so that they appear differently: /* Redirects on [[Special:Allpages]] and [[Special:Watchlist/edit]]. */ .allpagesredirect a, .watchlistredir a { color:#0B0; font-style:italic; }
*** Bug 13600 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
@ Casey Brown (comment #4): that could indeed make it easier to visually skip non relevant information, but the redirects could still potentially take up a lot of space that otherwise would be used to display useful information (of course, the terms "useful" and "relevant" are used here considering that one is not interested in the redirects, which might not be the case, and thus the support for the option, with a checkbox).
Where's the problem adding a simple checkbox to /un)hide redirects on Special:AllPages? This would be very useful.
Roan, just saw this pop up on #mediawiki Probably something we can do with (/at the same time as) the querypage updates..? Seems to fall under a similar umbrella...
(In reply to comment #8) > Roan, just saw this pop up on #mediawiki > > Probably something we can do with (/at the same time as) the querypage > updates..? Seems to fall under a similar umbrella... Allpages and Prefixindex don't use the QueryPage framework, so I see no reason to combine these changes. Adding an "exclude redirects" option to these special pages should be a relatively trivial change compared to the QueryPage refactoring.
Yes, allowing us to switch off showing redirects would be great, as my sites promote Special:Allpages to be the main way users are to get around the site. See also http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki/36092 for other users wanting / implementing the same thing. If allowing showing them differently, be sure the solution is not only CSS deep, as I want it to work in text browsers too! Also see Bug 2872.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 30963 ***
