eleanorfranks wrote:

Also I posted another bug at the same time (a search problem) and it was removed when it shouldn't have been. It is still a problem. I think the two are related, obviously.

matthew.britton wrote:

(In reply to comment #1)

Also I posted another bug at the same time (a search problem) and it was
removed when it shouldn't have been. It is still a problem. I think the two
are related, obviously.

It wasn't removed, it was resolved as invalid. I explained why it happens there: if you use "Go" with a search phrase that matches an existing page title, you will be taken to that title; in your case, one of the pages was a redirect to another page, the other one was a disambiguation page.

Bugzilla is for problems with the MediaWiki software, not problems with the content of a Wikimedia project. The issue you described is not a MediaWiki issue -- if it is an issue at all, it is one with the English Wikipedia's content, and if you think that either of the pages [[Sarkozy]] or [[Merkel]] should display something else, you are welcome to edit them accordingly.

Regarding the issue described in this bug, I can't tell for sure since I can't find the page, but my guess is that the page contains the same content in many different languages and JavaScript is used to display only one language at a time to the user; while the page is loading and the script has not yet run, all the languages will be viewable. It's not ideal but I know it's used in places on multilingual projects like Commons.

Might be referring to the server error page, which uses some funky JS to adjust which version it shows. Otherwise don't really know where to look, and we'll end up closing this as INVALID or WORKSFORME.

Original reporter refers to an article, so I doubt the error page is in question.