Use standard URL index.php?title= ... for background requests
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	Nemo_bis
	Mar 19 2016, 7:56 AM

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When the MediaWiki code generates an URL to something other than the default view of a wiki page, especially if the URL is then requested in the background, the URL should be in standard fullurl format, for instance /w/index.php?title=Special:BackofficeStuff&foo=bar instead of /wiki/Special:BackofficeStuff?foo=bar .

This sometimes doesn't happen, see T116609: View counts in squid logs, webstatscollector 2.0 and hive are very dissimilar for several projects. [5 pts]. We'd need to make a list of files where URLs are generated manually or hardcoded in a non-standard way.

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Use full URL in $wgNoticeHideUrls	operations/mediawiki-config	master	+10 -10

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Status	Assigned	Task
Declined	None	T116531 Monthly page view stats for wikibooks, wikinews, wikiquote, wikisource, wikiversity for July 2015 are extremely anomalous
Resolved	• Nuria	T116609 View counts in squid logs, webstatscollector 2.0 and hive are very dissimilar for several projects. [5 pts]
Open	None	T130442 Use standard URL index.php?title= ... for background requests

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Nemo_bis created this task.Mar 19 2016, 7:56 AM

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Nemo_bis mentioned this in T116609: View counts in squid logs, webstatscollector 2.0 and hive are very dissimilar for several projects. [5 pts].Mar 19 2016, 7:57 AM

Nemo_bis added a parent task: T116609: View counts in squid logs, webstatscollector 2.0 and hive are very dissimilar for several projects. [5 pts].

Change 250384 had a related patch set uploaded (by Nemo bis):
Use full URL in $wgNoticeHideUrls

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/250384

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Mar 19 2016, 7:58 AM

@awight or @Nuria: As @Nemo_bis doesn't wish to overview patch deployments during SWAT, could you schedule it on a SWAT window at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments?

Sure thing, thanks for the note! I've scheduled the deployment for tomorrow at 23:00 UTC.

Also, I appreciate @Nemo_bis letting us take our time and not rushing through the deployment last November--the hide mechanism is fragile and very important to our fundraising campaigns. Failure to hide banners during the December "Big English" drive would have caused a huge donor relations fiasco...

AndyRussG subscribed.Jun 1 2016, 9:18 PM

Change 250384 merged by jenkins-bot:
Use full URL in $wgNoticeHideUrls

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/250384

Mentioned in SAL [2016-06-01T23:21:11Z] <dereckson@tin> Synchronized wmf-config/CommonSettings.php: Use full URL in $wgNoticeHideUrls (T130442) (duration: 00m 23s)