index.php" but as actual wiki page name "wiki.html"
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	Mar 30 2021, 11:24 PM

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I use a browser extension for right-click searching of words. It works by sending a selected string to e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wiki.html?search=foo

As of today, it no longer works. Instead it presents users with a page that assumes wiki.html is a redlink.

Is this something we need to fix, or they (and possibly others) need to fix?

Their sourcecode is at https://github.com/2341/wikipedia-context-menu-search/blob/master/background.js (which should be easy to fix if it's still being maintained, but perhaps this affects [some/many] other tools if it was an old standard?)

I've commented downstream at https://github.com/2341/wikipedia-context-menu-search/issues/1

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Quiddity created this task.Mar 30 2021, 11:24 PM

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Quiddity updated the task description. (Show Details)Mar 30 2021, 11:25 PM

Aklapper renamed this task from wiki.html?search= no longer works to "/wiki/wiki.html" not interpreted anymore as an alias for "/w/index.php" but as actual wiki page name "wiki.html".Apr 3 2021, 10:02 AM

Being able to pass the search query parameter to any page and override that pages display to be the Special:Search page is functionality thats been around for a long time, but i've always interpreted it as a bug. Preferrably any search request should be issued to Special:Search instead of arbitrary pages.

I don't know that it was intentionally broken, it's worked for quite some time, but it doesn't seem like an intentional feature.

Gehel moved this task from needs triage to watching / waiting on the Discovery-Search board.Apr 19 2021, 3:16 PM

Does that mean this task should be declined? Or would restoring that behavior be welcome?

Gehel moved this task from needs triage to watching / waiting on the Discovery-Search board.

@Gehel: Or in different words: Who or what exactly is this task waiting on? If the team is only "watching" it, which other entity is supposed not to "watch" only?

@Aklapper @Gehel , I forgot why this was moved into watching. Due to the reasons above about the described behavior being desired behavior, this task should be declined

MPhamWMF closed this task as Declined.May 4 2021, 1:27 PM

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