Last modified: 2011-04-14 15:12:55 UTC
When you use of the foreign language alias instead of Special:Allpages , you will need many more steps and clicks with your mouse before reaching the search result. The French alias of "Allpages" is "Toutes_les_pages" Please compare the two following searches : A) with French alias http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AToutes_les_pages&from=char&to=&namespace=0 B) with English http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AAllPages&from=char&to=&namespace=0 The first Search, using the French language alias does not provide you directly with the search result and asks you to refine your search instead. This is a waste of time. To my mind, although I am generally in favor of internationalization, reverting back to the mediawiki version with no foreign language alias at all would be better than the present situation. Internationalization should not be made at the expense of needing one or two more mouse clicks to find a search result.
Interresting Works: http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Toutes_les_pages&from=char&namespace=0 http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AToutes+les+pages&from=Char&to=&namespace=0 Does not work: http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AToutes+les+pages&from=Char&to=&namespace=0 http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Toutes+les+pages&from=Char&to=&namespace=0 I think it's an Issue of url encoding of colon and white space. If they are encoded in the same way it works fine, if they are encoded with different methods you get folengos result. white space -> _ colon -> : or white space -> + colon -> %3A seams valid But if white space -> _ colon -> %3A or white space -> + colon -> : then it doesn't work.
If one kind of URL encoding is better than another, it should be used consistently in the URL encoding provided to the Wikipedia reader through [[:fr:Mediawiki:Sidebar]] and [[:fr:MediaWiki:Alphindex-url]].
