Yeah, I agree with Wargo - this is a rare enough use case on most wikis that the current situation of having to manually go do Special:ChangeContentModel is fine.

In T371184#10351049, @Pppery wrote:

We can't see that file. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help#File_visibility

We can't see that file. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help#File_visibility

Change #1095492 had a related patch set uploaded (by SomeRandomDeveloper; author: SomeRandomDeveloper):

[mediawiki/core@master] Use codex token for jquery spinner color

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1095492

Removing VisualEditor tag since the spinner is a part of the core.

This shouldn't have been sent out yet since the patch still hasn't been merged,.

Thanks for the feedback, I was mainly trying to keep it consistent with the other warning messages. After thinking about it again, that didn't really work for conveying more information than just the reason for why it went wrong.

Getting the optimal wording for error messages can be tricky: https://uxwritinghub.com/error-message-examples/

Change #1091844 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] Don't copy POST query params when generating link/redirect URLs

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1091844

In T326056#10334683, @Bugreporter2 wrote:

Would it be possible with this to specify, in the error message, the target of the redirect you're attempting to redirect to? The chances are that's what the redirect target should be as well.

Would it be possible with this to specify, in the error message, the target of the redirect you're attempting to link to? The chances are that's what the redirect target should be as well.

Presumably it was some local developer setup problem, otherwise someone else would've complained.

(I submitted a patch at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/1091844)

It seems that this is no longer reproducible (as far as I can tell, we only display this message when the form has not been POST-ed now), but it would still be nice to change this code, to avoid this bad pattern being copied elsewhere. (e.g. T309907)

In T326057#10321214, @Pppery wrote:

Unrelated to that entry (which I'm not convinced even belongs in Tech News at all).

Timing: as soon as the patch above is merged (you can generally assume that when a task has both Patch-For-Review and User-notice then that's the timing)

Wording draft: Users will now be warned when creating a redirect to a page that doesn't exist.

Change #1091350 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bartosz Dziewoński; author: Bartosz Dziewoński):

[mediawiki/core@master] editpage: More consistently exclude unintended limit report entries

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1091350

Unrelated to that entry (which I'm not convinced even belongs in Tech News at all).

Hello @Pppery, is this related to the entry in this Tech News? If it is unrelated, when will this be ready for Tech News, and what wording would you suggest as the content?

Change #1090544 had a related patch set uploaded (by SomeRandomDeveloper; author: SomeRandomDeveloper):

[mediawiki/core@master] Add a warning when trying to create a double redirect

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1090544

Change #1089205 had a related patch set uploaded (by SomeRandomDeveloper; author: SomeRandomDeveloper):

[mediawiki/core@master] Add a warning when trying to create a broken redirect

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1089205

@awight I think this request is covered by something or another in the T370027: [Epic] Parsoid CSS counter reset footnote numbering mechanism should be dropped in favor of plain text pile?

Cross-referencing a few other pipetrick-related bugs, in case someone decides to do some work on pipetrick again:

• T9264: Magic word to give Page Title as if pipe-trick performed on it
• T30730: pipe trick does not work if link contains a target (aka [[mw:foo#bar|]] isn't expanded)
• T160389: Incorrect behavior for pipe trick with underscore

Change #1080320 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] live preview: Do not add edit/view-source link for special pages

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1080320