Last modified: 2010-05-15 15:33:03 UTC
If you try to go to a bad title, the error message shows on a pseudo-page titled "Bad title". This includes showing talk page, edit, watch and undelete links for "[[Bad title]]"! Perhaps bad title & similar errors need to work on a hidden [[Special:Error]], like the search now does.
Fixed in cvs, error pages stop showing the quickbar.
*** Bug 852 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #1) > Fixed in cvs, error pages stop showing the quickbar. r1=1.109&r2=1.110">http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/wikipedia/phase3/includes/SkinPHPTal.php?r1=1.109&r2=1.110 This change caused a very ugly regression: the tabs are all missing in diff page views except a bogus "special page" tab (bug 987). The 'quickbar' is the *sidebar*; under some of the older skins the diff view turned off the sidebar in order to maximize the horizontal space available to show side-by-side diffs. MonoBook isn't really set up to make disabling the sidebar possible, so it was just ignored. Quickbar suppression doesn't seem to be the right trigger here.
In addition to breaking diff pages in MonoBook, the co-opting of quickbar suppression also makes error pages look really weird in the Classic skin. I've removed the broken fix.
*** Bug 1341 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 3970 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Another error condition is handeled at Bug 4638: Error condition generates wrong tabs links pointing to {{PAGENAME}} in the main namespace and not to {{FULLPAGENAME}} best regards reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]
Couldn't this problem be fixed by changing [[MediaWiki:Badtitle]]? I'm not sure what it would break, but it seems to work at a wiki I tested it on. (See http://fanstuff.hrwiki.org/index.php/MediaWiki:Badtitle and http://fanstuff.hrwiki.org/index.php/|)
Created attachment 2034 [details] Patch to set $wgTitle to "Special:Badtitle" instead of "Bad title" when a bad title is encountered This simple change seems to fix it. I've tested it locally and found no breakage, though I'd naturally welcome additional testing. There is, of course, no Special:Badtitle; this doesn't really matter, the point is just to set $wgTitle to any title in NS_SPECIAL. In fact, it's probably better for it to be a nonexistent page, just in case any skin tries to link back to it. Non-monobook skins, in fact, apparently do just that, through a "Printable version" link; I'm not sure if that should be considered a bug in those skins. Monobook doesn't provide such a link for special pages at all, although it does provide a "Special page" tab linking back to the original bad title (*not* to Special:Badtitle). In either case, any user that happens to click such a link is merely confronted with a second, rather self-explanatory error page.
Applied as r15203
