When the user visits an Object page without a URL set explicitly in their URL, re-write their history to the canonical one
Open, LowPublic
Actions

Assigned To

None

Authored By

	Jdforrester-WMF
	Jul 28 2023, 3:02 PM

Project Tags

Referenced Files

	F58415169: image.png
	Feb 18 2025, 7:53 AM

Subscribers

Jdforrester-WMF

LMorgantini-WMF

RJ2904

Description

When a user browses to wikifunctions.org/wiki/Z1 they're implicitly seeing wikifunctions.org/view/en/Z1 (and all the links/rel="canonical"s etc. are set as such), but their browser state stays on the implicit URL rather than the explicit one.

Acceptance criteria:

Replace URLs, not push URLs; going back one should take the user to their search engine/etc. source of the link
Visiting wikifunctions.org/wiki/Z1 replaces the URL with wikifunctions.org/view/en/Z1
Visiting wikifunctions.org/wiki/Z1?uselang=es replaces the URL with wikifunctions.org/view/es/Z1
Visiting wikifunctions.org/wiki/Z1?action=edit replaces the URL with wikifunctions.org/wiki/Z1?action=edit&uselang=en
Visiting wikifunctions.org/wiki/Z1?action=history replaces the URL with wikifunctions.org/wiki/Z1?action=history&uselang=en

Event Timeline

Jdforrester-WMF created this task.Jul 28 2023, 3:02 PM

Jdforrester-WMF triaged this task as Low priority.Aug 10 2023, 4:40 PM

Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from To Triage to Backlog on the Abstract Wikipedia team board.

DVrandecic added a project: good first task.Aug 11 2023, 4:23 AM

Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from Backlog to Product Backlog on the Abstract Wikipedia team board.Nov 13 2024, 5:56 PM

Can someone please explain this issue properly? From what I can see on my localhost, I am getting a URL like

when visiting the page, which is expected.

In T343001#10558494, @RJ2904 wrote:

Can someone please explain this issue properly?

When you go to https://wikifunctions.org/wiki/Z1 you get the contents of https://wikifunctions.org/view/en/Z1 (except for some very minor differences). However, we don't issue an HTTP redirect or a client-side JS history re-write to update the URL in the browser.

Note that this task is in the "Product backlog" for the product team to decide whether we want to do anything about this.

Jdforrester-WMF removed a project: good first task.Feb 18 2025, 2:21 PM

As part of a backlog review, we’re looking at tasks in the Product Backlog that haven’t had activity in the past 12 months to help keep priorities clear and up to date.

We plan to move this task to “No Current Plans” after 15 May 2026. If you believe this task is relevant right now, please comment and provide context on why before then.

Many thanks!

LMorgantini-WMF moved this task from Product Backlog to No current plans / External on the Abstract Wikipedia team board.May 15 2026, 8:50 PM

When the user visits an Object page without a URL set explicitly in their URL, re-write their history to the canonical oneOpen, LowPublicActions

Description

Event Timeline

When the user visits an Object page without a URL set explicitly in their URL, re-write their history to the canonical one
Open, LowPublic
Actions