User:Church of emacs/Manual:$wgShowPageOnRedlink

{{SettingSummary
|name = ShowPageOnRedlinkActionPaths
|summary = View page instead of edit interface when visiting a red link
|section = Site customization
|version_min=1.16.0
|rev_introduced=56730
|version_max = 
|range = boolean or array
|default = false
}}

View page instead of edit interface when visiting a red link. There are three ways to define this variable:

1. Set $wgShowPageOnRedlink to true (false is default)
2. Set $wgShowPageOnRedlink['usergroup'] to false. If a user is member of at least one usergroup for which the variable has been set to false, the edit interface will be shown. Otherwise the page is shown.
3. Set $wgShowPageOnRedlink['usergroup'][NS_XY] to false. Same as 2., but you can specify the namespace. The namespace is a numerical value (namespace index), you can use constants such as NS_MAIN or NS_USER_TALK.

If you use an array (2. or 3.), the default will be true (for 1. it's false). In 2. and 3. there is no way to overwrite a value 'false' once it has already been set (this is due to the undefined order of usergroups).

Examples

Anonymous user should be shown the page, not the edit interface:

$wgShowPageOnRedlink['user'] = false;

For all users, in the main namespace, the page should be shown, not the edit interface:

$wgShowPageOnRedlink['*'][NS_MAIN] = false;