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Redirect that should have been created in "Wikipedia:" namespace was created in mainspace on the English Wikipedia
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Sebbog13
Mar 10 2025, 3:12 PM
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Description

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

Skjermbilde 2025-03-10 154324.png (244×741 px, 15 KB)

  • As you can see it says "Search in: Wikipedia", which doesn't search all of Wikipedia, but the "Wikipedia:" namespace.
  • I clicked the I clicked the "Search for "UBX/GALLERY" in existing pages within the Wikipedia namespace."
  • I usually manually type out pages I search for in the url at the top, and I usually click that, instead of writing it at the top right where it says "Search Wikipedia".

What happens?:

  • The redirect was created in mainspace or ":" (no namespace).

What should have happened instead?:

  • The redirect should be created in the "Wikipedia:" or "WP:" namespace.

Software version (on Special:Version page; skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):

Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.): Firefox (I don't know the version, probably latest or a really recent version)

Skjermbilde 2025-03-10 154324.png (244×741 px, 15 KB)

Skjermbilde 2025-03-10 155034.png (505×1 px, 54 KB)

Skjermbilde 2025-03-10 155135.png (418×1 px, 41 KB)

Skjermbilde 2025-03-10 155128.png (219×570 px, 24 KB)

Skjermbilde 2025-03-10 155019.png (110×342 px, 7 KB)

Event Timeline

From what I understand, the search engine searches the "UBX/GALLERY" string in Wikipedia: namespace pages, but the title string itself (which is used to generate the redlink) doesn't include Wikipedia. A bugfix might involve adding the namespace in which the search is made to the redlink. However we should bear in mind that it is possible to search in several namespaces at the same time, and how to generalize our bugfix to this case is not obvious.

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