Last modified: 2007-05-21 16:45:52 UTC
BUG MIGRATED FROM SOURCEFORGE http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=977535&group_id=34373&atid=411192 Originally submitted by Nobody/Anonymous - nobody 2004-06-22 17:04 For redirect pages that go to a page title that begins with a '/', when the redirect page is viewed with &redirect=no, the '/' is not shown in the link and these redirects are seen as broken by Special:Maintenance&subfunction=brokenredirects An example of this is: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Gcwi_language&redirect=no which displays a link to [[Gwi language]] (which does not exist) instead of [[/Gwi language]]. The redirects works if &redirect=yes ------------------------- Additional comments ------------------------ Date: 2004-06-22 19:17 Sender: SF user imsop Actually, the problem is wider than you think: no link can point at a page beginning with "/". The reason is that in a namespace where subpages are legal (e.g. [[Wikipedia:Sandbox]]) it will be treated as a subpage link (e.g. to [[Wikipedia:Sandbox/Gwi language]]). In Wikipedia's article namespace, subpages are disabled, so the software removes the slash as being erroneous. The bug is that you were able to create a page with such a title in the first place. (And that the redirect *does* work, even though the links don't; a consequence of the rather ad hoc parser, I suspect). Workaround: move the pages so they don't begin with slashes - awkward, I know but they won't be the only ones - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_pages_whose_correc t_title_is_not_allowed_by_MediaWiki This bug should stay open until someone blocks such pages from being created accidentally. ------------------------------------------------- Date: 2004-06-28 04:46 Sender: SF user vibber This page title should not work under the current schema. That is does is erroneous, as it can't be reached through normal links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//Gwi_language Renamed bug report to reflect the root problem.
*** Bug 116 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Hi, my patch at bug 428 should allow articles beginning with slash to be linked normally, although it only applies when subpages are disabled.
See also bug 2088.
Created attachment 2582 [details] Tested patch that makes any title with / as the first character invalid
Applied in r17454.
Reverted on 17456 by Simetrical, because several pages with this name are already exist.
Don't we have a script to clean up dud titles and rename the pages?
Probably, so if anyone would care to run it . . .
Why not fix the linking code, instead of disabling initial slashes? In cases where there is a conflict with subpage syntax, you can just specify the namespace, e.g. [[User:/Foo]] or [[:/Foo]].
The linking code appears to work fine at present, although if you're in a namespace with subpages it requires the leading colon. Should either be FIXED or WONTFIX.
*** Bug 8046 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
can't reproduce the original behaviour here, presumably it's been fixed at some point.
