Last modified: 2011-03-13 18:04:34 UTC
Hallo! See bug 3819 comment 4 MediaWiki allows the generation of titles with heading and / or trailing punctuation characters (which theoretically can be included also inside a title) see http://homepage1.nifty.com/nomenclator/unicode/data/punct.htm [[Special:Prefixindex]] as in http://yi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Prefixindex/%E2%80%AB allows to detect such "nonsense" titles specifying the heading sequence. This request is about creating a new special page similar to [[Special:Allpages]] and [[Special:Prefixindex]] where "instring" search should be possible. Similar search is already possible in [[yi:Special:Newimages]] (in a limited way see note at the end). Tray to serch for *ago*. It should be possible to search like http://yi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Instringtitle/%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%92%D7%99%D7%9D Thanks in advance for all your work. Best regards Reinhardt [[user:gangleri]] note: http://yi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Newimages/%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%92%D7%99%D7%9D would not work I can not see the URL generated by Special:Newimages .
proposed workaround Hallo! I remember a spacial page available in previous versions used to detect pages with typos, misspellings etc. Would it be possible to activate that spacial page (if it still up to date - compatible with the actual version) at [[:yi:]] and [[wiktionary:yi:]] ([[wiktionary:yi:Main_Page]]) If this would work to detect the 5 control characters this feature could be activated temporarely at other RTL wiki's as well. Thanks for your support. Regards reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]
related to Ævar's comment from bug 3984 comment 1 > We're not going to allow searching for a substring anywhere in a string in the > log_user, log_title or log_comment fields in miser mode. I fully understand that each search requires resources and the foundation must decide what is reasonable and what not. However some tools should be avilable allowing to detect upcomming problems, fraud, inconsistencies. The request of this bug is related to the last.
I found a painfull workaround: Identify where you want to search (as [[wiktionary:yi:Special:Allpages]]). View at the page source of that page and search with %nn. In our example %E2%80%A will return many results. This covers 6 BiDi punctuation characters. Another testcase where these characters are used is http://test.leuksman.com/view/Special:Recentchangeslinked/Category:Bugzilla/BiDi .
I have been noticed at bugzilla.mozilla.org about http://pastebin.com/ . This tool does not allow %nn searches but represents all Unicode characters in &#nnnn; notation. see http://pastebin.com/476848 However I would prefer to have a tool inside MediaWiki.
This sort of specialist query is probably best suited to the toolserver.
