| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| action=history should return 404 if there is no such page | mediawiki/core | master | +6 -0 |
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| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | • Nuria | T145922 Spamy - User-like pages distort our pageview metrics (they return 200 when they should return 404) | |||
| Resolved | saper | T146496 action=history pages should return 404 HTTP error code if the page does not exist |
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These "fake 200s" affect metrics. We inflate our pageview numbers (however slightly) with these hits which cannot be pageviews as they have no content.
Many bots are hitting this one for example and using it as some kind of keep-alive: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%20:GoogleAnalitycsRoman6/google-api&action=history
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Change 312561 had a related patch set uploaded (by saper):
action=history should return 404 if no such page
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Change 312561 merged by jenkins-bot:
action=history should return 404 if there is no such page