Last modified: 2010-07-04 17:19:40 UTC
Visit the URL http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=links&titles=User:Carnildo/sandbox7 Expected result: <?xml version="1.0"?> <api> <query> <pages> <page pageid="2014995" ns="2" title="User:Carnildo/sandbox7"> <links> <pl ns="6" title="File:Example.png" /> </links> </page> </pages> </query> </api> Actual result: <?xml version="1.0"?> <api> <query> <pages> <page pageid="16393778" ns="2" title="User:Carnildo/sandbox7" /> </pages> </query> </api>
This is not the API's fault. Escaped image links are no longer being registered either as images nor as links. This can be verified by linking an image with [[:File]] or [[:Image]] and checking that such a link creates no backlink on the image description page, and no link on Special:Whatlinkshere. NOTE: This is only the case if the file/page exists. If not, the link _is_ registered. This is similar to how Special: page links are now registered if there is no such Special: page, like [[Special:Foobarbazlalala]] will register a NS_SPECIAL pagelink. Possibly due to related Image->File refactoring. Moving out of API component and resumming, removing some CCs too (since the API peeps probably don't care). Note: This was reported December 18th in #wikimedia-tech and I told the reporter to open a new bug. I can not find the new bug but if they did create one this may need duping.
Should be fixed in r45174.
*** Bug 16837 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Regression seems to be due to changes in what Title::isAlwaysKnown() checks -- it used to pretty much only tackle off-wiki stuff and Specials, things which we're *not* supposed to record in link tables. The fix in r45174 is insufficient as it only checks the file case; we've got several other things borked: * MediaWiki: links are not recorded * Non-existent special pages *are* recorded
Patched this up in r45266. Fixes other cases broken by Parser's assumptions failing to hold after change in Title::isAlwaysKnown()'s behavior: * Links to invalid Special: pages were being recorded, but shouldn't * Links to valid MediaWiki: pages were no longer recorded Instead of the NS_FILE special-case in r45174, I'm just tossing *all* isAlwaysKnown links over to ParserOutput::addLink(), and letting the latter worry about what types of titles it won't record. Just for good measure, in case any NS_MEDIA titles make it into ParserOutput::addLink() they'll be normalized to NS_FILE.
Cf bug 16162.
