Last modified: 2012-01-13 23:44:35 UTC
Take a look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-05-15/Tron_appeal In the top-right corner, you see: < Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost | 2006-05-15 i.e. two links. So far so good. Now comes the actual bug: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-07-24/Skutt_suit It says: < Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost The link to 2006-07-24 is missing. The reason is probably that the page [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-07-24]] doesn't exist. However, I believe it should still display the link, but in red (as is usual for non-existing pages).
This appears to be intentional. The suggested change is certainly reasonable, though.
The change required is in Skin.php (Media wiki 1.12) in the method subPageSubtitle in the Skin class. the line that reads if(preg_match('/class="new"/i',$getlink)) { break; } # this is a hack, but it saves time should be commented out if you wish for missing subpages to be linked. OR changed to if(preg_match('/class="new"/i',$getlink)) { # this is a hack, but it saves time $growinglink.='/'; continue; } If you wish them to be skipped. As right now it skips more than it should..example. I have Software:Projects/Tickets/Testing/TicketCreation/2008-01-02 the "Testing" page does not exists. When on the 2008-01-02 page (a result of the testing described in the parent) I have this breadcrumb. Software:Projects | Tickets the TicketCreation page is not linked even though it exists. Also if I don't have the Software:Projects page I have no subpage links at all.
Created attachment 4963 [details] Patch to fix and allow extended behavior of subpage linkes Patch to fix and allow extended behavior of subpage linkes I've attached a patch that fixes the implementation of subPageSubtitle so that it will not abruptly end if there are "missing" pages in the middle of a sub page hierarchy. Also it adds a new config variable of $wgShowNonExistingSubPages which defaults to false. when set to true the non-existing subpages will be displayed.
I already changed it differently in r33652, it doesn't stop on missing page, but will skip it.
Adding the "need-review" keyword for patches that need review by developers. Edward, thank you for your patch, and sorry it's taken so long for a response on this!
This should be fixed as indicated in comment #4. Please reopen if this is not the case.
Oh, Edward- if you would like to hack on the new parser we are currently working on, please see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Future/Parser_development. And thank you for your patch, even if it was not used in the end!
