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Special:WhatLinksHere behaves incorrectly on targets from "Special:" namespace
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Author: Innocenti.Maresin

Description:
An attempt to browse to such pages as [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Special:…]] invariably gives “No pages link to Special:…”.
Examples are:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Special:Log/block
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Special:Version
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Special:AllMessages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Special:SpecialPages
All these are linked from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Special_pages

Actually, not a serious bug, but I think that either Special: pages should be included to <tt>pagelinks</tt> (it is not a heresy since it contains even red links), or that answer in this situation has to be altered to something like “Information is not available”.

Version: 1.21.x
Severity: minor

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bz39126
SubjectRepoBranchLines +/-
Refactor SpecialWhatLinksHere to use FormSpecialPagemediawiki/coremaster+67 -51
specials: Special:Whatlinkshere should not act on special pagesmediawiki/coremaster+2 -1
Customize query in gerrit

Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 22 2014, 1:02 AM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Special-pages.
• bzimport set Reference to bz39126.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
• bzimport created this task.Aug 8 2012, 9:48 AM
duplicatebug added a comment.Aug 8 2012, 11:11 AM

see also bug 14787

duplicatebug unsubscribed.Dec 13 2014, 11:41 AM
• Reguyla moved this task from To triage to Special:WhatLinksHere on the MediaWiki-Special-pages board.May 26 2015, 2:19 AM
gerritbot added a comment.Jan 4 2023, 3:25 PM

Change 875349 had a related patch set uploaded (by Umherirrender; author: Umherirrender):

[mediawiki/core@master] specials: Special:Whatlinkshere should not act on special pages

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/875349

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jan 4 2023, 3:25 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Jan 5 2023, 8:36 PM

Change 875349 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] specials: Special:Whatlinkshere should not act on special pages

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/875349

matmarex removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Jan 5 2023, 8:41 PM
matmarex subscribed.

The patch fixes this behavior when the form on Special:WhatLinksHere is submitted with a special page's title, but not when visiting Special:WhatLinksHere/foo with the special page given as a subpage – it behaves as if you just visited Special:WhatLinksHere in this case. I'm therefore keeping the bug open.

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.40-notes (1.40.0-wmf.18; 2023-01-09).Jan 5 2023, 9:00 PM
Umherirrender edited subscribers, added: Umherirrender; removed: • wikibugs-l-list.Jan 5 2023, 9:11 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Jan 7 2023, 6:51 AM

Change 875935 had a related patch set uploaded (by Func; author: Func):

[mediawiki/core@master] Refactor SpecialWhatLinksHere to use FormSpecialPage

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/875935

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jan 7 2023, 6:51 AM
gerritbot added a comment.Jan 11 2023, 3:47 AM

Change 876385 had a related patch set uploaded (by Func; author: Func):

[mediawiki/core@master] Refactor SpecialWhatLinksHere to use FormSpecialPage

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/876385

Func subscribed.Jan 11 2023, 3:58 AM
gerritbot added a comment.Feb 1 2023, 10:58 PM

Change 876385 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] Refactor SpecialWhatLinksHere to use FormSpecialPage

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/876385

ReleaseTaggerBot edited projects, added MW-1.40-notes (1.40.0-wmf.22; 2023-02-06); removed MW-1.40-notes (1.40.0-wmf.18; 2023-01-09).Feb 1 2023, 11:00 PM
matmarex closed this task as Resolved.Feb 1 2023, 11:31 PM
matmarex assigned this task to Func.
matmarex removed a project: Patch-For-Review.
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