If click the edit links link on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Androids_Dream_of_Electric_Sheep? to get to Wikidata, Wikidata can´t find the item. The question mark in the title is removed on Special:ItemByTitle.
Version: master
Severity: normal
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Androids_Dream_of_Electric_Sheep?
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44536
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | None | T47600 Wikidata deployment phase 2 on first set of Wikipedias (tracking) | |||
| Resolved | None | T47223 question mark skipped in "edit links" link |
The bug description is wrong.
The cause of the bug is because the question mark isn't properly escaped and then becomes a separator for the query part of the URL. In this case it should be part of the filepath, or in mediawiki-lingo the title of the page.
Basically the title isn't escaped properly on the client.
I think the following should be sufficient to solve this bug, and its independent on whether we should link directly on the id itself. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/51956/
Bug 44536 relates to this one as it replaces the linking to the special page with linking to the id. Still note that of this writing the changeset is broken.