| MarkAHershberger | |
| Aug 25 2024, 1:07 AM |
While exploring Special:Prefixindex to describe T373254: DisplayTitle should show the displaytitle for Prefixindex+stripprefix, we put {{Special:PrefixIndex/Main_Page}} on a subpage of Main_Page and got unexpected results.
A tiny wiki with only one page, Main_Page/demo, whose content is:
{{Special:Prefixindex/Main Page/}}
[[Main Page/demo]]The page should show
Main_Page/demo
But, instead it shows
Main_Page/demo
| Subject | Author | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fix selflink by using parser. | MarkAHershberger | mediawiki/core | master | +25 -8 |
Change #1070049 had a related patch set uploaded (by MarkAHershberger; author: MarkAHershberger):
[mediawiki/core@master] Fix selflink by using parser.
When transcluding a special page, you can think about it as using an iframe. The transclusion is merely including what the special page would have output, with some tweak such as removing the submittable form.
So as much as Special:PrefixIndex does not have a TITLE context, it does not have one either when it is being transcluded.
I think the primary use case for Special:PrefixIndex is to list subpages and I don't think there is much point in listing the root page in the listing when you are already on the root page. So that if you are on a page Book and have subpages Book/Chapter_1 and Book/Chapter_2 you would use:
{{Special:PrefixIndex/Book/|stripprefixindex=1}}Which would exclude Book (since it does not match Book/ ) and remove the common prefix of Book/ which yields:
Chapter_1 Chapter_2
That is most probably going to be used in an infobox template. That in turns would probably be decorated with a link to Book which would not be linked when showing up on the Book page thanks to the magic of the MediaWiki parser.
Change #1070049 abandoned by Hashar:
[mediawiki/core@master] Fix selflink by using parser.
Change #1070049 restored by Thcipriani:
[mediawiki/core@master] Fix selflink by using parser.