On 4/7/06, Rotem Liss <mail(a)rotemliss.com> wrote:
If you mean
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5073, the
problem was the categories' links color became blue, and we cannot see
whether we've misspelled the category or not. However, there is no
problem changing the red links to the categories to point the page
rather than the edit view.
Except.
1) Until you edit the category page, it doesn't exist, this is no
different than putting a link in a page to any other page which
doesn't exist.
2) The reason the link is red is because it points to a non-existant page.
3) The contents of category pages is not just to explain the category
name, but to categorize the category so as to form a hierarchy, so
"self describing" category like "biology" should still be put into a
higher level category like "sciences". This requires human
interaction.
4) The red category link is an indication that either:
a) This is a newish category which hasn't yet been categorized itself
or
b) The category name was mistyped.
In either case the red link is an indication that something needs to
be done manually to make the link blue. Generating a blank category
page removes this symptom of a problem which is why folks seemed to
disturbed when this was changed, and why the change was backed out.
--
Rick DeNatale
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