Last modified: 2004-08-21 23:33:40 UTC
BUG MIGRATED FROM SOURCEFORGE http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=977535&group_id=34373&atid=411192 Originally submitted by Nobody/Anonymous - nobody 2004-06-22 17:04 For redirect pages that go to a page title that begins with a '/', when the redirect page is viewed with &redirect=no, the '/' is not shown in the link and these redirects are seen as broken by Special:Maintenance&subfunction=brokenredirects An example of this is: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Gcwi_language&redirect=no which displays a link to [[Gwi language]] (which does not exist) instead of [[/Gwi language]]. The redirects works if &redirect=yes ------------------------- Additional comments ------------------------ Date: 2004-06-22 19:17 Sender: SF user imsop Actually, the problem is wider than you think: no link can point at a page beginning with "/". The reason is that in a namespace where subpages are legal (e.g. [[Wikipedia:Sandbox]]) it will be treated as a subpage link (e.g. to [[Wikipedia:Sandbox/Gwi language]]). In Wikipedia's article namespace, subpages are disabled, so the software removes the slash as being erroneous. The bug is that you were able to create a page with such a title in the first place. (And that the redirect *does* work, even though the links don't; a consequence of the rather ad hoc parser, I suspect). Workaround: move the pages so they don't begin with slashes - awkward, I know but they won't be the only ones - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_pages_whose_correc t_title_is_not_allowed_by_MediaWiki This bug should stay open until someone blocks such pages from being created accidentally. ------------------------------------------------- Date: 2004-06-28 04:46 Sender: SF user vibber This page title should not work under the current schema. That is does is erroneous, as it can't be reached through normal links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//Gwi_language Renamed bug report to reflect the root problem. ------------------------------------------------- Date: 2004-08-16 08:01 Sender: SF user timwi This bug has been migrated to MediaZilla: http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98 Please leave additional comments or attachments there.
This bug was copied from SourceForge twice. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 98 ***
