[Wikia-l] HardRedirectsWithJSText Feature causing navigation bugs

[Daniel Friesen]

Yes, it is very common for someone who is reviewing things in RC or any 
other list to use the CTRL+Click command to open up a list of tabs then 
look at them.

~Daniel Friesen(Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) of:
-The Nadir-Point Group (http://nadir-point.com)
--It's Wiki-Tools subgroup (http://wiki-tools.com)
--The ElectronicMe project (http://electronic-me.org)
--Games-G.P.S. (http://ggps.org)
-And Wikia ACG on Wikia.com (http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG)
--Animepedia (http://anime.wikia.com)
--Narutopedia (http://naruto.wikia.com)

George Pribul wrote:
> Heya,
>
> Just thought I'd try a bit of testing - I can only reproduce it when clicking on the redirecting links in quick succession (Firefox, Vista). Is that what you saw?
>
> (Note the extension isn't live everywhere - it's only on a few wikis so issues like these can be fixed.)
>
> Thanks for the report!
> Kirkburn
>
>
> 2008/9/1 Daniel Friesen <dan_the_man at telus.net>
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>> The HardRedirectsWithJSText that Wikia created is creating a lot of issue with navigation. A lot of times when I visit an article I am getting false redirected from lines.
>> Sometimes I get them when I'm not redirected at all. Most of the time, I open up a few pages, and I get a bogus redirected line saying that I was redirected from a completely different article.
>>
>> Just now for a test I clicked on:
>> Chakra gates
>> Eight gates
>> Twelve Gentlemen Guardian Ninja
>> 12 Guard Ninjas of Fire
>>
>> Chakra gates redirects to the real page Eight gates
>> Twelve Gentlemen Guardian Ninja and 12 Guard Ninjas of Fire both redirect to Twelve Guardian Ninja
>>
>> The results were:
>> Chakra gates (No redirect)
>> Eight gates (Redirected from Twelve Gentlemen Guardian Ninja)
>> Twelve Gentlemen Guardian Ninja (No redirect)
>> 12 Guard Ninjas of Fire (No redirect)
>>
>> Clearly there is a serious issue with this extension if every last result I got there was completely bogus. 3 redirects said that they had no redirects. And the one page that wasn't a redirect said it was redirected from a page that points to a completely different page.
>> And on top of that of course, any user without JS won't even get links back to redirect pages. So quite simply, admins need to have JS turned on in order to fix bad redirects.
>>
>>
>> This extension seriously needs to be disabled till the tech team has actually made sure it works flawlessly.
>>
>> -- 
>> ~Daniel Friesen(Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) of:
>> -The Nadir-Point Group (http://nadir-point.com)
>> --It's Wiki-Tools subgroup (http://wiki-tools.com)
>> --The ElectronicMe project (http://electronic-me.org)
>> --Games-G.P.S. (http://ggps.org)
>> -And Wikia ACG on Wikia.com (http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG)
>> --Animepedia (http://anime.wikia.com)
>> --Narutopedia (http://naruto.wikia.com)
>>
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