List of steps to reproduce (step by step, including full links if applicable):
What happens?:
A drawer shows at the bottom which talks about "creating page".
What should have happened instead?:
Special pages cannot be created by the user, so these red links should be ignored by the skin-specific scripts.
Change 770080 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bhsd; author: Bhsd):
[mediawiki/skins/MinervaNeue@master] initMobile: Ignore red links to special pages
Change 770085 had a related patch set uploaded (by Func; author: Func):
[mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend@master] PageHTMLParser: Filter out red links which link to special pages
Change 770080 abandoned by Bhsd:
[mediawiki/skins/MinervaNeue@master] initMobile: Ignore red links to special pages
Reason:
Fix this bug in MobileFrontend instead.
It seems to me a little odd that the contributions link is marked up with the new class. The new class should only be used for pages that don't exist. I think this needs some design input before it can be considered for code review. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/!_! is not a red link. It has useful information about an account being blocked.
Tagging Growth team who maintain the contributions page and may have opinions on this.
Looks like this behaviour was added in T156879 but I don't see any involvement from WMF teams in this design decision which seems a little odd to me.
It was not added in that patch. It predates that patch for a decade actually, since 2007: 5bf4f2867748adba3a7d1678822a0ff78fba9ee8
Thanks for the correction! Seems like a good time to check in on whether the treatment makes sense here (or perhaps a different one)
Only that I agree with @Jdlrobson that the contributions links should not be a red link because these pages exist, with information that people would find useful to know about when the account was blocked. Same goes for the Talk pages (eg., https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:!_!)
+1.
And if a special page exists, it has to be accessible to the user on both mobile and desktop.
Change 806237 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jdlrobson; author: Jdlrobson):
[mediawiki/core@master] Contributions link should be marked up differently from non-existent pages
Change 806237 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@master] Contributions link should be marked up differently from non-existent pages
Change #770085 abandoned by Jdlrobson:
[mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend@master] PageHTMLParser: Filter out red links which link to special pages
Reason:
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