Searching for a term with # in it is not handled gracefully
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	Nov 5 2007, 4:15 AM

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Author: flieslikeabrick

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When searching on any Mediawiki installation for a search term with # in it, the results page does not handle this special name gracefully. It offers to let the user create the page, but the link is broken and doesn't even take them to a form to create the page. This special search term seems to be treated differently than if you searched for, for example "foo>bar." "foo#bar" results in the case I am talking about.

Any Mediawiki installation seems to have this problem, including Wikipedia's is slightly different.

According to the naming conventions/technical limitations, this shouldn't be allowed and should be handled just as any of the other special characters are

Version: 1.11.x
Severity: minor

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Reference: bz11872

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 10:00 PM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Search.

• bzimport set Reference to bz11872.

• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

• bzimport created this task.Nov 5 2007, 4:15 AM

flieslikeabrick wrote:

I should also mention that if this is the intended behavior, then there is definitely a bug when trying to search for "#foo"

The results page gives a "Create page" link, but it isn't handled properly for the case where the search term starts with #.

Created attachment 5119
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AnchorSearch.patch1 KBDownload

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