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VisualEditor: "Read the user guide" cannot redirect to target page
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Description

Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

  • Setup a fresh MediaWiki installation.
  • Find a page, and open Visual Editor to edit.
  • Find the question mark in the toolbar, then click "Read the user guide" inside of it.

What happens?:
User is brought to a page named "Mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:VisualEditor/User_guide" (defined in message "visualeditor-help-link"), which can not be redirected to mediawiki.org in default installations, just return a "Bad title" page.

What should have happened instead?:
The link should be redirected to corresponding page on mediawiki.org, insteading showing "Bad title".

Software version (on Special:Version page; skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia): MediaWiki-1.43.0-alpha (e1b6218), VisualEditor (053ef03, lib/ve: f780587)

Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):
When language set to "qqx" while editing using VisualEditor, the buggy link will point to page named "(visualeditor-help-link)", a page name in qqx format.

Although it cannot be redirected to mediawiki.org, when using the content in message "visualeditor-help-link" in a normal link, it can be redirected.

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Event Timeline

Change #1042174 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders; author: Esanders):

[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Use full external link for link to mw.org help page

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1042174

Change #1042174 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Use full external link for link to mw.org help page

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1042174

Esanders claimed this task.