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Bug 11872 - Searching for a term with # in it is not handled gracefully
Searching for a term with # in it is not handled gracefully
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Search (Other open bugs)
1.11.x
All All
: Normal minor (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
: patch, patch-need-review
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Reported: 2007-11-05 04:15 UTC by Ryan Rawdon
Modified: 2010-07-04 17:19 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---

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Proposed patch (1.94 KB, patch)
2008-08-05 20:52 UTC, Max Semenik 		Details
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Description Ryan Rawdon 2007-11-05 04:15:49 UTC 
When searching on any Mediawiki installation for a search term with # in it, the results page does not handle this special name gracefully.  It offers to let the user create the page, but the link is broken and doesn't even take them to a form to create the page.  This special search term seems to be treated differently than if you searched for, for example "foo>bar."  "foo#bar" results in the case I am talking about.

Any Mediawiki installation seems to have this problem, including Wikipedia's is slightly different.

According to the naming conventions/technical limitations, this shouldn't be allowed and should be handled just as any of the other special characters are
Comment 1 Ryan Rawdon 2007-11-05 04:24:28 UTC 
I should also mention that if this is the intended behavior, then there is definitely a bug when trying to search for "#foo"

The results page gives a "Create page" link, but it isn't handled properly for the case where the search term starts with #.
Comment 2 Max Semenik 2008-08-05 20:52:57 UTC 
Created attachment 5119 [details]
Proposed patch
Comment 3 Max Semenik 2009-09-02 15:27:55 UTC 
Appears to be fixed.
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