Last modified: 2014-09-18 16:11:36 UTC
Special:MovePage now has a namespace dropdown menu, but on certain wikis (such as the English Wikipedia), I've observed this pattern of behavior: 1. User creates an article draft at "User:John Smith/Turtles and fish". 2. User goes to move the page at Special:MovePage. 3. User removes "John Smith" from the input field, fills in a reason, and then clicks move page. 4. Page ends up in the wrong location ("User:Turtles and fish"). Alternate scenario: 3. User removes "John Smith" from the input field, selects "Wikipedia" (because they want to publish their article on Wikipedia, after all, not realizing this is the site's meta-namespace), fills in a reason, and then clicks move page. 4. Page ends up in the wrong location ("Wikipedia:Turtles and fish"). I'm not sure how to best solve this. My inclination would be to add a confirmation screen (or use JavaScript) to say "THIS IS WHAT YOUR NEW PAGE TITLE WILL LOOK LIKE: 'User:Turtles and fish'. OKAY?" I'm not sure this would help if it read "THIS IS WHAT YOUR NEW PAGE TITLE WILL LOOK LIKE: 'Wikipedia:Turtles and fish'." This needs further thought.
See http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-March/058551.html
(In reply to comment #1) > See http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-March/058551.html Indeed. And this comment from Tim: --- I think the feature should be reverted. In the <title>, <h1>, links, URLs and lots of other places in MediaWiki, page titles are presented as a single string. This is about the closest thing we have to a title concept in MediaWiki. We have namespace filters in a few places, but the full title is always shown in the results list. This move page feature seems confused about how MediaWiki users think about titles. It would make sense in a wiki engine like Confluence, where page titles are normally abbreviated, but it doesn't make sense in MediaWiki. --- Source: <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-March/058587.html>. I'm not sure I agree with an outright revert, though.
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Requests_for_comment/Simplify_thumbnail_cache&offset=20131008014647&limit=10&action=history ^ Another example of this happening. The drop-down menu at Special:MovePage is problematic for all kinds of users.
(In reply to comment #3) > The drop-down menu at Special:MovePage is problematic for all kinds of users. Indeed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mosca/wikEd_international_pt.js
Bug 60399 may be a duplicate of this bug.
