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

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.

25 years wasn't such a bad guess.

This would be fixed by having different user groups, which can be easily set in localsettings.php.

A magic word output of the user's browser would allow this. Would it impact caching?

Most likely.

I believe the SOP is actually to retire this task and start a new task for 1.44, rather than renaming this one, @Reedy -- at least that's what people did before.

In T377798#10249300, @Aklapper wrote:

@Bugreporter2: Who said that this is wanted or needed or is better than the current situation? What makes this an "improvement"?

Or is there any reason why escaped-HTML can't be just displayed as plain text?

Non-wikitext messages would seem to fall under

Thanks to all who have worked on fixing this.

But that assumes that the welcome patch would fix everything, which I doubt it would.

I've added that suggestion as T371657

Better than having it preserve the skin, which can be set via [[special:preferences]], might be to include a drop-down in [[special:expandtemplates]] that allows the skin to be specified, which then adds &useskin=foo as required?

Is this still happening now with the new implementation of dark mode?

Why is this needed? The homepage looks OK to me in dark mode:

Another thing it could do is mark if the edit is minor or not.

As a note, Wikipedia uses a lot of IPA. Fonts should be IPA-compatible, and because of open source ideology, open source.

Having checked this out, I can see that $wgRestrictDisplayTitle does allow some but not all of this functionality. That is, it allows changes to both the displayed name and <title> but you have to use one string to change both values. So, if you set {{DISPLAYTITLE:USS ''Nimitz''}}, it changes the page title to USS Nimitz (italics with <i> tags), but then the html title is displayed as USS Nimitz (without the formatting), and it's not ideal to set the <title> tag to something different such as USS 𝘕𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘻 (which uses italic lettering from https://lingojam.com/ItalicTextGenerator rather than formatting the text itself). Note, if you use {{DISPLAYTITLE:USS 𝘕𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘻}} (i.e. with the italic lettering), the page title looks pretty messy.

@taavi I do not think this is an extension request; I think it better integrated into MediaWiki core.

Thanks for the review @Samwilson - you are correct; I had misspecified the element that this would customise.

I don't think we should really be using italics to show redirects.

Might it be better to fix this with a magic word like` {{ISSUBPAGE}} which would return 1` if true and 0 if false? They could then be used together to avoid throwing errors.

Is this really a massive 😱 OMG drop everything and panic security issue?

The solution to this, which I'm going to suggest, is by moving disambiguation pages to their own namespace. This is something that some 3rd party wikis do already, and it seems to work.

I think this is good idea 👍💡