Last modified: 2013-09-06 01:33:14 UTC
Originally noticed when I viewed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.186?redirect=no and got a bunch of exceptions from getting started. Maybe related to bug 50023 >>> var t = new mw.Title( '.1' ); Error: mw.Title: Could not parse title ".1" { message="mw.Title: Could not parse title ".1"", more...} Browser: firefox 3.5
It also kinda fails on all titles with a dot in it, due to themisguided "file extension" support it has… >>> (new mw.Title( 'A.B' )).getNameText() "A"
This causes the VE edit tab to not load on a page starting with only one period. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Framework_version_history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.007 Several periods in a row work fine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....And_Proud Unrelated bug: special:prefixindex doesnt work for '.' https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&prefix=.&namespace=0 There are two and bit pages of articles with this problem is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:PrefixIndex&from=..Z&prefix=&namespace=0&hideredirects=1
(In reply to comment #2) > This causes the VE edit tab to not load on a page starting with only one > period. CC'ing James :)
> > Unrelated bug: special:prefixindex doesnt work for '.' > > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&prefix=. > &namespace=0 Split to bug 52010. Short version is Special:prefixindex doesn't work with prefixes that aren't valid titles. ( '.' is not a valid title because web browsers get confused and think its unix relative directory syntax)
VE team will work on this in the next few days unless someone wants to grab it from us before that. :-)
(In reply to comment #1) > It also kinda fails on all titles with a dot in it, due to themisguided "file > extension" support it has… > > >>> (new mw.Title( 'A.B' )).getNameText() > "A" This is imho irrelevant and expected behaviour. If you call #getNameText you're explicitly asking to get the page title without any prefix it may have (which, since extensions have little meaning in MediaWiki, can be in any namespace). You're looking for mw.Title#getMainText [1]. https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/js/#!/api/mw.Title-method-getMainText
(Sorry, I believed I just filed https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52467 :/ )
*** Bug 52467 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 52683 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 51979 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Folding back into bug 38081 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 38081 ***
