Author: herd

Description:
It is currently possible to register links to negative namespaces.

A link to a non-existing Special: page like [[Special:Foobarbaz]] will show <pl ns="-1" title="Special:Foobarbaz" />, and an image link= like [[Image:Foo|link=Special:UserLogin]] to either an existing or non-existing Special page will show <pl ns="-1" title="Special:UserLogin" />. This last one is rather more buggy than the other. This can also be done with Media: (-2) namespace links in image link=.

These are perhaps not ideal situations, but as there are multiple methods of accidentally doing it, perhaps the API should do a sanity check and ignore -1 namespaces for generator?

See also:
http://test.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=links&titles=Flibble
http://test.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=links&titles=Flibble

(test cases are fragile, subject to later repair)

Version: 1.14.x
Severity: major
URL: http://de.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&generator=links&titles=Wikipedia:WikiProjekt%20Begriffskl%E4rungsseiten/Flie%DFband/Aktuelles