Last modified: 2013-06-18 15:24:52 UTC
When I try searching for deleted pages on pl.wikipedia with prefix 'User:Beau' I got blank page as a result (MediaWiki dies?).
Does this happen still? Or solved in the meantime?
I still receive 'HTTP/1.0 500 Internal Server Error'.
Now it does not show a blank page, but an error message: PHP fatal error in /usr/local/apache/common-local/php-1.17/includes/specials/SpecialUndelete.php line 746: Call to a member function getPrefixedText() on a non-object It would be nice if 14 months old fatals were fixed somewhen...
No one was interested so I took a look myself out of curiosity. With an aid of toolserver I was able to find the issue. There was a page named 'Wikipedysta:Beau/.' it was later deleted. Now such titles are invalid, so the page itself is no longer accessible. I can see link to it using Special:Log: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/pl/w/index.php?title=Specjalna:Rejestr&dir=prev&offset=20080119212153&user=Beau&limit=1 and Special:DeletedContributions: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/pl/w/index.php?title=Specjalna:Usuni%C4%99ty_wk%C5%82ad&dir=prev&offset=20071202113605&target=Beau&limit=1
Created attachment 8981 [details] Fix displaying list of deleted pages I have created a patch, which replaces makeTitleSafe with makeTitle. It allows to display deleted pages corretly without dereferencing null pointer. However, it is still impossible to view or undelete a page with an invalid title.
How do you think MediaWiki should behave when encountering a now-illegal page name in the database? I try to reproduce the problem (I have renamed one page by hand in the database) and this page is actually inaccessible by normal means (one gets redirected from [[User:WikiAdmin/.]] to [[User:WikiAdmin/]] all the time; it gets listed in [[Special:PrefixIndex]] only.
This page was normally accessible by using index.php?title= as entry point and encoding . as %2E in the title parameter. The change of page title validation should have been accompanied by a maintenance script, which sanitizes in some deterministic way existing titles in the database. I don't think there is a point in extending Special:Undelete to handle such rare cases with a rename & restore feature.
Applied thingy in gerrit.
