Author: timwi
Description:
BUG MIGRATED FROM SOURCEFORGE
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=977535&group_id=34373&atid=411192
Originally submitted by Nobody/Anonymous - nobody 2004-06-22 17:04
For redirect pages that go to a page title that begins
with a '/', when the redirect page is viewed with
&redirect=no, the '/' is not shown in the link and
these redirects are seen as broken by
Special:Maintenance&subfunction=brokenredirects
An example of this is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Gcwi_language&redirect=no
which displays a link to [[Gwi language]] (which does
not exist) instead of /Gwi language. The redirects
works if &redirect=yes
- Additional comments ------------------------
Date: 2004-06-22 19:17
Sender: SF user imsop
Actually, the problem is wider than you think: no link can
point at a page beginning with "/". The reason is that in a
namespace where subpages are legal (e.g.
[[Wikipedia:Sandbox]]) it will be treated as a subpage link
(e.g. to [[Wikipedia:Sandbox/Gwi language]]). In Wikipedia's
article namespace, subpages are disabled, so the software
removes the slash as being erroneous.
The bug is that you were able to create a page with such a
title in the first place. (And that the redirect *does*
work, even though the links don't; a consequence of the
rather ad hoc parser, I suspect).
Workaround: move the pages so they don't begin with slashes
- awkward, I know but they won't be the only ones - see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_pages_whose_correc
t_title_is_not_allowed_by_MediaWiki
This bug should stay open until someone blocks such pages
from being created accidentally.
Date: 2004-06-28 04:46
Sender: SF user vibber
This page title should not work under the current schema.
That is does is erroneous, as it can't be reached through
normal links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//Gwi_language
Renamed bug report to reflect the root problem.
Version: unspecified
Severity: minor