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Wikipedia page "&" shows unusual page
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Author: arun90

Description:
Pages "&", "&a", "&am", "&amp" produce the expected "article not found" page.
Pages "©", "<", ">", """ produce the expected "bad title" page.

Page "&" produces an error page with the following footer:


If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below.

Request: GET http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/&, from 67.188.136.234 via sq73.wikimedia.org (squid/2.7.STABLE9) to ()
Error: ERR_ACCESS_DENIED, errno [No Error] at Wed, 21 Sep 2011 06:44:20 GMT



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Severity: normal

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Reference
bz31059

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Unbreak Now!.Nov 21 2014, 11:56 PM
bzimport set Reference to bz31059.
bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

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