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mw.Title should let you format a title relative to an arbitrary namespace, not assume NS0
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Right now mw.Title formats namespaces assuming that you want their representation from NS0, which is wrong in several cases.


Version: 1.23.0
Severity: enhancement

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bz67448

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 3:29 AM
bzimport set Reference to bz67448.

So for example, where this came up in VE, we wanted a title relative to the Template namespace. The idea is that main namespace titles are prefixed with ':' and templates are just their main text (no namespace).

Change 144171 had a related patch set uploaded by Alex Monk:
mw.Title: Add function to get title relative to an arbitrary namespace

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/144171

Change 144171 merged by jenkins-bot:
mw.Title: Add method to get title relative to an arbitrary namespace

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/144171

Just need to start using it now. Guess we'll have to wait for 1.24wmf23 for that.

(In reply to Alex Monk from comment #4)

Just need to start using it now. Guess we'll have to wait for 1.24wmf23 for
that.

Or 1.25wmf1. ;-)

Change 162016 had a related patch set uploaded by Jforrester:
mw.Title: Add method to get title relative to an arbitrary namespace

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/162016

Change 162016 merged by jenkins-bot:
mw.Title: Add method to get title relative to an arbitrary namespace

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/162016