Talkback improperly normalizes links to DYK discussions

[enterprisey]

In 3825f47, normalizeTalkbackPage seems to only allow links to all talk namespaces and the Wikipedia namespace. Unfortunately, DYK discussions occur in the Template namespace, so this change makes it impossible to use the talkback functionality to link to a DYK discussion.

Potential solutions:

• allow template-space links in addition to the existing ones
• allow just links to subpages of Template:Did you know nominations
• nothing
• one of the above, but also make the DYK project move to Wikipedia-space so we can finally stop special-casing this in discussion-related scripts

credit to Narutolovehinata5 for originally pointing this out

[Amorymeltzer]

Oof, thanks! For now, I've added templatespace in #1348, as well as a tooltip note.

Maybe it'd be better to just allow specific places like T:DYK subpages, but I'm trying to think if there are any others like that. I thought POTD stuff, but maybe not. I don't think the entire project will move their discussions to a different namespace, but I do think that'd be better.

[siddharthvp]

Or we could do without overreaching normalisations like this.

[Amorymeltzer]

I suppose folks sometimes do discussions in userspace as well. I'm fine with just 0->1; it's nonobvious with a default to 3, but still possible. There's some discontinuity with defaulting a no-namespace entry to usertalk space, which I think is still valuable.

[siddharthvp]

Let's make it clear using the label and/or the placeholder that a talk page is to be entered. No need for any normalisation.

[enterprisey]

Thanks for the fast response!

Alternative route: display a tooltip or span saying "this is a content namespace! are you sure you want to link to this page instead of its talk page" when appropriate, and then perform no automatic normalization

[Amorymeltzer]

@enterprisey Some sort of alert, like is done elsewhere?