Last modified: 2014-04-10 02:36:57 UTC
If I type this in a post: [[:en:Foo bar]] it gets saved as: [[en:Foo bar]] It should preserve the :colon prefix. [Further detail. Possibly a separate bug, or it's an intended effect?] If I then edit that post, and just add ", true" after the link, it gets saved as: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo bar]], true which renders as , true Eg https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Flow_QA&topic_newRevision=rplry5w6txhfutf1&topic_oldRevision=rplrxf88a3ptg6wp&workflow=rplqjkun4mxieeac&action=compare-revisions
Possibly related to Parsoid's bug 51442 ?
on second look..this may be parsoid related but not entirely sure. Using the round trip form ( http://parsoid.wmflabs.org/_rtform/ ) this looks to work correctly. On the other hand manually round tripping at http://parsoid.wmflabs.org/_wikitext/: [[:en:Foo bar]] results <p data-parsoid='{"dsr":[0,15,0,0]}'><a rel="mw:ExtLink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo%20bar" data-parsoid='{"stx":"simple","a":{"href":"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo bar"},"sa":{"href":":en:Foo bar"},"isIW":true,"dsr":[0,15,2,2]}'>en:Foo bar</a></p> Which when provided to http://parsoid.wmflabs.org/_html/ gives me back: [[en:Foo bar]]
Getting stranger. This bug now only seems to affect certain interwiki links. fr: confirmed. Detail: When I add "[:fr:Athérure]" it gets saved as "[fr:Athérure]", and then if I edit the post again it gets saved as "[http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athérure]" But if I add "[:de:Zufall]" it gets correctly saved as "[:de:Zufall]" Test case here: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Sandbox&topic_postId=rsg1m81vskkdywgk&workflow=rsftpxbkjdg745zu#flow-post-rsg1m81vskkdywgk and another editor battling the problem here: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Beta_Features/Hovercards&topic_postId=rs2kexhb014dx2d8&workflow=rs2kexh7vs938oxo&action=history (Possibly this bug should be reassigned to Parsoid?)
I think the accents in [[:fr:Athérure]] and [[:fr:Porc-épic]] are the key. [[:en:Foo bar]] now works, it preserves the leading colon. To reproduce in Parsoid, copy the following three lines: [[:fr:Athérure]] and [[:fr:Porc-épic]] lose the leading colon. May be it's the accent since [[:fr:Bonjour]] is OK. [[:en:Foo bar]] used to not work... If you send it through http://parsoid.wmflabs.org/_rtform/ , it claims the resulting wikitext is identical. But in Flow, if you put this in a post, then when you later edit this post, the leading colon from the accented links is gone from the wikitext. The API call Flow makes is https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&list=flow&flowpage=Talk%3ASandbox&flowworkflow=rsftpxbkjdg745zu&flowparams={%22topic%22%3A{%22postId%22%3A%22rskn5smwrffhalus%22%2C%22contentFormat%22:%22wikitext%22}} which makes Flow ask Parsoid to convert the HTML to wikitext, and the accented links have lost the leading colon. parsoid interwiki links was recently changed, gerrit I86024ff038
