[Mediawiki-l] Category links

Fri Apr 7 17:11:52 UTC 2006

John Wiedenhoeft wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I was thinking about a feature in mediawiki that I can't make sense of.
> When adding a category link to an article, it links to the edit page of
> the category site. I guess this is to enable the user to quickly edit
> this page without pressing the edit button (is this too much to expect
> from him?). But what if no description in desired, e.g. if the category
> ("biology", "medicine") is self-explaining? The links stay red as if the
> category page didn't exist.

Then save a blank page if you have this strange, unique requirement.

> Wouldn't it be desirable to change this behaviour?

No.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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