Wiki Links do not track page name changes [#16088]

Not sure if this is a bug or a feature request.
If a Wiki link is made to a page called 'My Page' and the page's name subsequently
changes to 'His Page' the link does not track the change.

Also, the policy of which node to link to in the case of identical names is not clear to me.

Comments

Comment #1

mkarliner commented 27 January 2005 at 11:00

Just for the record, mkarliner logged this bug, I forgot to log in again.

Comment #2

veridicus commented 13 February 2005 at 22:14

Category:

bug

» feature

It's a feature request. And a good one, actually. There's only two ways to handle this. Upon a title change for any node a search and replace could be done throughout all wiki style nodes. This could be very slow and would change the author's data without their approval, which I don't like. The other solution is to maintain a title "to-from" table to track changes and check it upon redirection (wiki/goto/title). That could be cumbersome and also wouldn't reflect the name change in the node linking to it.

I don't like either solution and some people would definitely not want this feature at all. If a "wiki framework" is ever submitted by someone I'll consider this as part of it. But for this filter I think it's not yet a good idea.

In the case of identical titles I redirect to the first one in descending date order. It's either that or bring up a search results page. I chose the former.