Last modified: 2012-11-29 13:09:16 UTC
The edit action, triggered by action=edit, needs to be handled nicely - probably by simply redirecting to the normal item view. The MediaWiki UI generates edit links in all kinds of places - as part of listings like recentchanges, from redlinks in wikitext, etc. We will not be able to supress or replace them everywhere. So we should handle them in a nicer way than saying "oops, you can't".
see also bug 37541
fixed by https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/12854/