Steps to replicate the issue:
- Go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppetry while logged out (just for reproducability; this is an issue regardless of skin and I don't want to care about gadgets :).
- Find the "see below" link in the first section in the sentence "An editor using multiple accounts for valid reasons should, on each account's user page, list all the other accounts with an explanation of their purpose (see below)."
- Click below.
Observe: Jump to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppetry#Alternative_account_notification
- Now, hit the back button such that the anchor is removed from the URL (remove it from the URL and press enter if nothing else)
- Scroll down to the Legitimate uses section
- At the end of the bullet that starts with privacy, there is a link to "the notification section below".
- Click it.
Observe: No jump
What should have happened instead?:
Jumps are good. :)
wikitext to HTML:
The source wikitext for the first link is [[#Alternative account notification|below]] and the HTML is
<a href="#Alternative_account_notification">below</a>
The source wikitext for the second link is [[Wikipedia:Sockpuppetry#Alternative account notification|the notification section below]] and the HTML is
<a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Alternative account notification">the notification section below</a>
Note the spaces in the fragment.
This should be URL encoded.
archive.org has no version from before today where this link doesn't do what is expected (here's January 19th's copy, note the underscores in the relevant link), so is there something in today's train that potentially caused the issue or is archive.org guessing at the intent of the spaces in the href?
Software version: 1.40.0-wmf.19 (3ee932e) 02:18, 17 January 2023
QA Results - Prod
| AC | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ✅ | T327467#8576651 |
