780277 - Non-existent pages with non-existent parents do not drop the user into the page creation form as other non-existent pages do

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Wiki pages, defect, P3)

Description

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

When you get a 404 within the wiki, you should be offered a link to click to create the page. I don't quite get why we don't have this already. :)

Comment 1

[David Walsh :davidwalsh]

Note to self:

This will be more difficult than adding a simple link, since we don't allow for "mock" pages if the 404's parent page (based on slug) doesn't exist.  We'll need to think about this one.

Comment 2

[Channy Yun [:channy]]

I want to resolve this bug quickly for translation users. We have to make a sub page from parent page, so it needs several clicks for ready of translation.

Comment 3

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

Sheppy: We do have this, but only if the parent page already exists. If you are visiting a URL where neither the parent page nor the child page exists, you are given a 404 instead of a page creation page. For example...

Parent (HTML5) exists, so you get a page creation page:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTML/HTML5/sheppy

Parent (HTML6) does not exist, so you get a 404:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTML/HTML6/sheppy

The workaround is to create the parent page first. If you want a page named HTML6/sheppy, create the HTML6 page and then the sheppy page.

We may decide that we want to keep it this way. Even if we do, we should look into how we can make this design decision more clear in the interface.

Comment 4

[David Walsh :davidwalsh]

We aren't going to create stub parent pages.

Comment 7

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

I still feel some advice from the user experience could help here (see bug 791842), and that we might have a hard time making progress on this without that. That said, I would like to reopen this so that we do not forget about it, especially considering how many duplicates we keep seeing.