Talk:Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Miscellaneous/Check if a page exists without populating WhatLinksHere
Add topicLatest comment: 1 year ago by Pigsonthewing in topic Fixed?
Description issue
[edit]Please fix the description where it says "This is a perennial request to fix some long-standing technical debt" to instead read "This is a perennial request to fix some long-standing technical defict". The words are not interchangeable, though I can see how a non-native English user could arrive at "debt" here. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ< 19:49, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
- @SMcCandlish: I'm a native English speaker. As far as I can tell, this is technical debt - it wasn't the intended behaviour, but no-one's got around to fixing it yet. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:57, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
- As a native English speaker, the phase technical debt seems fine here. * Pppery * it has begun 20:21, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
- If you say so. It's not an idiom I've ever encountered in my life, and I'm in my 50s and I work tech. Perhaps it's geographically specific. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ< 20:31, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
- @SMcCandlish: see en:Technical debt. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 20:37, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
- If you say so. It's not an idiom I've ever encountered in my life, and I'm in my 50s and I work tech. Perhaps it's geographically specific. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ< 20:31, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
- As a native English speaker, the phase technical debt seems fine here. * Pppery * it has begun 20:21, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
Fixed?
[edit]Today's tech news includes:
The #ifexist parser function will no longer register a link to its target page. This will improve the usefulness of Special:WantedPages, which will eventually only list pages that are the target of an actual red link. This change will happen gradually as the source pages are updated.
-- Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:20, 26 May 2025 (UTC)