Why don't red links show as red links in Mobile? I'd like to (a) know that the page editor has created a link (b) know that the article doesn't exist, (c) have a chance to create that article by clicking on a red link, (d) have a chance to read about the fact that an article at that title has previously been deleted. I can do all of that on desktop: why not on mobile?
Topic on Extension talk:MobileFrontend/Flow
Hello!
There are two config variables to change how redlinks are handled:
$wgMFShowRedLinks (show redlinks in stable mode) and $wgMFShowRedLinksAnon (show redlinks for anonymous users)
Is there a bug about enabling those by default?
Uhm, i think not exactly for this. But what i know is, that the Mobile web team has plans to deprecate this feature (remove redlinks). But i don't know when.
If there are such plans, please create a bug to track them.
Added: bug 69849
Is there a workaround for the REL_1.23 version, which doesn't appear to include those options?
For branch REL1_23 the easiest way would be to remove the contents of this function: https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-MobileFrontend/blob/REL1_23/includes/MobileFormatter.php#L152
But i suggest to just upgrade to MW1.24, which has these options.