Last modified: 2013-06-18 15:48:35 UTC
In the Kurdish Wikipedia (http://ku.wikipedia.org) with its two scripts (Roman/Arabic) there is an unexpected behaviour concerning non-existing pagenames in Arabic script. If someone looks for an Arabic script page that does not exist (for instance مارکس ) there will be an automatic redirection to the ROman script page with the same name (in this case: Marks). The same thing happens in the article search, where the search for the Arabic script page name returns the Roman script pagename. This does NOT happen when doing a fulltext search. This behaviour makes it impossible to start an Arabic script page by typing the desired name into the browser's address line or the article search box if a Roman script page with the same name exists already.
Hmm. Well http://ku.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=مارکس does indeed redirect, you could still edit [[ku:مارکس]] by appending edit at the end - http://ku.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%A9%D8%B3&action=edit so one can still create the page if they really wanted. Changing component to language converter. I'm unsure if this needs "fixing" or not. Personally I think the current behaviour makes sense, but am unsure.
Is this bug a real problem for anyone? ku Wikipedia pretty much defaults on Latin script since nowadays the ckb Wikipedia (Sorani Kurdish with Arabic script) is functional. This was not the case when this feature was introduced into ku.
There's already a user preference to disable this. You may tog it for yourself or ask for community support to disable it by default...
