Author: thomas.diesler
Description:
foo
[[My Page#My Section]] will break if "My Section" is renamed
Please add a special page that discovers broken section anchors.
Relates to: http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8928
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Declined | None | T12310 Show whether links to the page are to the whole page or to a section | |||
| Open | Feature | None | T18561 Make links to nonexisting sections being easy distinguishable | ||
| Invalid | None | T10955 Special page listing broken section anchors |
Not much point to this; would require changes to database structure for an
extremely fragile interface, not worth the effort.
This is the kind of thing which is much better served by the toolserver, if and when
it ever catches up ;-) Maybe the original poster could redirect his request in that
direction...
ayg wrote:
I don't know, I could see the value to this. It's added info in the schema that could be useful for plenty of things. It's pretty annoying to follow a broken link, and if such links are fragile, that's all the more reason to add the ability to maintain them. Could this be reconsidered?
This wouldn't even work -- you don't know whether that was an id or a section or what.
thomas.diesler wrote:
Instead of resolving this issue as invalid, it would probably be better to propose a solution that would actually work. As it is now section links are pretty useless especially if the wiki is in its early stages of development (i.e. not stable)
ayg wrote:
(In reply to comment #5)
This wouldn't even work -- you don't know whether that was an id or a section
or what.
Ah, that's true. You could search the rendered page for a matching id, but that would be rather awkward (since you'd have to parse it . . . which I guess you would regardless due to templates). However, that issue doesn't apply to bug 10310, so I'll reopen that separately for consideration.