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Undoing an edit by an interwiki username results in broken user/talk/contribs links in edit summary
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If an edit performed by an interwiki username (generally as a result of import) is undone or reverted, the edit summary contains broken links, since > is not a valid character in page names in MediaWiki.

Example undo summary: Undo revision 123456 by [[Special:Contributions/iw>Username|iw>Username]] ([[User talk:iw>Username|talk]])

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Dinoguy1000 renamed this task from Undoing an imported edit results in broken user/talk/contribs links in edit summary to Undoing an edit by an interwiki usernmae results in broken user/talk/contribs links in edit summary.Jan 15 2019, 6:03 AM
Dinoguy1000 renamed this task from Undoing an edit by an interwiki usernmae results in broken user/talk/contribs links in edit summary to Undoing an edit by an interwiki username results in broken user/talk/contribs links in edit summary.
Dinoguy1000 updated the task description. (Show Details)

Change 575207 had a related patch set uploaded (by Ammarpad; owner: Ammarpad):
[mediawiki/core@master] Handle interwiki usernames in undo edit summary

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/575207

Change 575207 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@master] Handle interwiki usernames in undo edit summary

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/575207