Wikilinks to the special page, Special:Badtitle, are being styled with class "new" - although this is a valid target.
Example:
https://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SpecialBadTitle&oldid=449380
Please remove the class styling when this wikilink is parsed
| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consider SpecialBadtitle as always known | mediawiki/core | master | +4 -2 |
Originally reported on enwiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Badtitletext#Red_link
Special:Badtitle is not really a conventional special page, it's just an adhoc error page. It makes sense to make it blue though, since it has viewable content.
Is there a way do make it blue? F.Y.I. Special:Badtitle is red not just in Wikipedia, but red in about every single project.
@Gioguch that is what this request will do, it is "red" because it has the "new" class on it, it shouldn't need that class
If you want fix it, you can propose a patch. FYI this needs to be done in includes/Title.php
Change 650086 had a related patch set uploaded (by Ammarpad; owner: Ammarpad):
[mediawiki/core@master] Consider SpecialBadtitle as always known
Special:Badtitle is not really a conventional special page, it's just an adhoc error page. It makes sense to make it blue though, since it has viewable content.
I disagree. The link is broken, it does not refer to a page.
The fact that a link target has viewable content does not mean the link should be blue. Point in case, a category that doesn't have a category page but does have pages in the category has viewable content, but a red link. And that's how it should be, I believe.
I don't understand the problem this solves. In what context does a link show up referencing a bad title, and you would want it to be blue?
The report at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)/Archive_140#Incorrect_appearance_of_badtitletext seems to discuss an entirely different problem: The link https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ghazanfar_Ali_Abbasi&curid=47816824&diff=681046280&oldid=681044588 shows the Badtitletext message, even though the Title is not bad at all. The revision is bad (deleted). This should result in a different error being shown.
The same is true for the link in the ticket's description: https://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SpecialBadTitle&oldid=449380 has a valid title (SpecialBadTitle). But the revision is suppressed and can't be show. It would be nice to show a helpful message explaining this, rather than the unhelpful link to Special:Badtitle. Making that link blue would not improve the situation. The link doesn't lead anywhere.
@daniel more plainly, this link is styled with class=new, but it does not lead to a new page creation process; that is why it shouldn't be styled as such
So you think that [[Special:Barfoo]] should be blue, because Special:Barfoo cannot be created? Is there consensus on this in the community? I seems to me that the link should be red, because the link is bad.
As to the page in the task description: https://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SpecialBadTitle&oldid=449380 should not have a link to Special:badtitle at all. It should instead show a message indicating that the revision is deleted.
Change 650086 abandoned by Ammarpad:
[mediawiki/core@master] Consider SpecialBadtitle as always known
Reason:
I have no comment on Special:Barfoo or other invalid names in general - simply that this particular link is certainly never going to trigger the "new page" workflow, and is otherwise a valid Special page that does display a message (MediaWiki:badtitletext)
Agreed with Daniel. This seems rather theoretical, but I'm open to hearing otherwise if and when there is a real-world example of regular content or other project pages linking to Special:Badtitle in a way that isn't an accident.
I appreciate that the special page "Badtitle" is valid unlike other made up special pages. But it is intentional and by design that this one special page is considered non-existent (unlike all other valid page names). The reason is that this page name is used as proxy for when a page name is invalid. In that case we internally translate it to "Badtitle" which thus would need to be a red link.
Perhaps an alternate direction would be to remove whatever exists today that is leading people to think that Special:Badtitle is worthy of being linked to, since that seems like the larger problem in my opinion and may be the source of the confusion that led to this.