mediawiki RemoveRedlinks Extension

An extension for MediaWiki to remove red links for users not logged in.

Developed by Malte Ahrholdt for https://www.nordicnames.de based on an original work by Chad Horohoe [email protected] in 2009.

Status: release

Purpose and operation

• When users who aren't logged in don't have editing permissions or usually don't see the need to edit, links to non-existent pages is more confusing than helpful.
• Links to non-existent pages that aren't nofollow is bad for SEO
• This extension disables red links to non-existing pages to users which are not logged in.
• The red links are still shown to logged in users in order to facilitate editing.

Installation

1. Download this repository as a ZIP file
2. Extract the "RemoveRedlinks" folder into the extensions/ folder of your MediaWiki installation
3. Add wfLoadExtension("RemoveRedlinks"); to LocalSettings.php

Configuration

• $wgRemoveRedLinksAlsoLoggedInUsers: set to true in LocalSettings.php if you want all internal red links to disappear regardless of whether a user is logged in or not