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Bug 44704 - Automatically suggest disambiguation pages
Automatically suggest disambiguation pages
Status: NEW
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Page editing (Other open bugs)
1.21.x
All All
: Low enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2013-02-06 05:37 UTC by Nischay Nahata
Modified: 2014-02-12 23:35 UTC (History)
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Description Nischay Nahata 2013-02-06 05:37:59 UTC
Created an article wikiImporter on mw.org then visited "wiki Importer" that page is blank and has to be created, normally one would create a disambiguation page there or a redirect.

I think it would be much better if MW could list out "Did you mean wikiImporter?" on such an article by using its search index.

If that is possible I think it can somewhere remove the need for creating/editing disambiguation pages manually or at least make it redundant.
Comment 1 Matthew Flaschen 2013-02-08 20:30:23 UTC
It sounds like you're proposing the automatic creation of redirects, not disambiguation pages.

A disambiguation is e.g. a page called Mercury that links to both Mercury (planet) and Mercury (element)
Comment 2 Nischay Nahata 2013-02-09 03:22:05 UTC
I am proposing automatic disambiguation pages. In this case, Mercury page could say "Are you looking for Mercury (planet) or Mercury (element)?" while you can still create that page.

Automatic redirects aren't a good thing, where would you redirect automatically to Mercury (planet) or Mercury (element)? confusion right.

In case of "wiki Importer" it can be a redirect but not an automatic one.

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