[Wikipedia-l] Red links

Tue Sep 24 07:02:27 UTC 2002

On Monday 23 September 2002 11:00 pm, Anthere wrote:
> Question : if french or dutch decide they would prefer
> ? rather than red, is it technically possible ?

In order to preserve the good will of the non-English language Wikipedia's I 
propose that any change in default behavior like this /must/ be decided by 
each individual Wikipedia community. 

I'm not a Wikipedia developer, but from what I do know about databases it 
should be fairly easy to implement different "default behavior" tables for 
each language (similar to having different language.php files). 

However for the English Wikipedia I think it was unanimous (or pretty darn 
close) that "highlight empty links" should be the default. 

If stubs are highlighted in yet another color then the non-highlighted 
alternative would probably be an exclamation point as The Cunctator suggested.

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)