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Watchlist keeps wrong URL for User talk:Username/subpage - retains User:Username/subpage
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Author: lexein-w

Description:
Using the Add/remove Watchlist blue star link:

  1. For User talk:username/subpage, wrong wikilink is stored in the Watchlist.
  2. For (one) user adding their own User talk:username/subpage, this results in non-logging in My watchlist
  1. Example: on an existing subpage like User talk:SomeOtherUserNotMe/subpage

when I click the blue Watchlist star, then view under My watchlist/edit watchlist, the wrong wikilink (User:SomeOtherUserNotMe/subpage) is shown, as a redlink.

Event logging still occurs (for me).

  1. Attempting to add/remove one's own User talk:username/subpage using the blue star, results in some logging not occurring (Anecdotal report)

This occurred for user and page: User talk:Pine/Signpost , created for Signpost to updated regularly.

Workaround: move the User talk:username/subpage to User:username/subpage . Correct URL is watchlisted, and bluelinked, and logging occurs without missing any events.

Question: is this about a client side Javascript conflict?


Version: 1.18.x
Severity: normal

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Reference
bz31796

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 11:54 PM
bzimport set Reference to bz31796.
bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

Watching a page is supposed to watch both the page and the talkpage, so User talk: being canonicalized to User: is normal.

If notifications are showing up then that could be a bug.

lexein-w wrote:

Thanks. I've added a note to that effect at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Watching_pages

The original question came up at IRC en-help, so this will help helpers in future.