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MobileFrontend editor always launches when opening empty talk pages
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Description

e.g. Clicking the talk tab on https://simple.m.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Leedsichthys (requires login to see the talk tab)

Expected behaviour

  • Clicking a red-linked talk tab on mobile doesn't open an editor

Event Timeline

Change 764802 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders; author: Esanders):

[mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend@master] Editor init: Use wgAction instead of query string action

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/764802

Change 764802 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend@master] Editor init: Use wgAction instead of query string action

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/764802

As expected, clicking the red-linked talk tab on mobile takes me to the Talk page where I can decide to click the Start a discussion affordance or not - as opposed to opening an editor. See

discussion_page.jpeg (2×1 px, 686 KB)