Last modified: 2006-04-30 08:42:28 UTC
Hallo! Sorry for this! [[:::{{FULLPAGENAME}}]] is still "selfrefering". However that link is shown as red. In general: (today) [[:::foo]] is always shown red. best regards reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]
changed the url to a mirror BTW: [[::::::foo]] generates a link http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=::::foo&action=edit with a header "Editing :::foo" This is how it works. No complaints. No comments.
Another note, if you try to save in http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=::CueCat&action=edit you get an edit conflict.
This link is not "stable": Please go to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=:::::::::CueCat&action=edit and make more previews (with an empty content or whatever) The *title* gets "shorter" and "shorter" ... and ends up at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=CueCat .
(In reply to comment #3) I edited http://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=:::::::::CueCat&action=edit inserted http://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=:::::::::CueCat&action=edit and saved (without any preview). The result was http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat a title which does not exist / is empty. Please see http://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=:::::::CueCat&curid=1860&action=history and a shorter http://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=::::::CueCat&curid=1861&action=history These links show pages where the tab "article" is wrong. At http://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=::::::CueCat&curid=1861&action=history the "edit" links shows an empty page.
Now this is really weird. After the above note, I tried the following edit link (with 3 colons, instead of 2): http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=:::CueCat&action=edit It worked, and I actually managed to create a page. See http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=::CueCat&action=history The page is listed as a redirect in http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=CueCat Things are very bolloxed. Obviously the database is perfectly happy to store a page starting with :, but the user interface gets deeply confused.
So I moved [[CueCat]] to [[:CueCat]], by using ::CueCat as the destination in Special:Movepage. It worked. But the result was that the page was lost (at least, it was hard to find), and the admin move revert link _didn't work_! I eventually managed to move the page back to CueCat, but it wasn't easy. If I were Willy on Wheels, I'd be wetting the bed right now in glee. Imagine the havoc he could cause by exploiting this flaw. Therefore, I'm pushing the severity of this bug up to "major".
Such titles rejected as of r13960.
Thanks Brion!
