Author: joshuaissac2000-guard
Description:
Cropped screenshot showing notification dropdown menu with RFC 3 link on hover
On the English Wikipedia, I was thanked by an editor for an edit to a talk page, which had "RFC 3" in its title. Instead of leading to the talk page, the link took me to the RFC 3 page on the IETF website.
Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
Attached:
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | None | T70217 Link in notification points to unexpected destination due to magic linking ("RFC #") | |||
| Resolved | Legoktm | T47942 "Magic links" RFC, PMID and ISBN should be configurable and disableable |
sounds like a rather annoying feature of mediawiki, could potentially be fixed by <nowiki> the titles that are not used inside brackets, Alternatively rawParam or plaintextParam on the arguments, but then we have to know the argument wont be used inside a [[ ]] link
Adding that as a blocking task because if the magic linking code is going to be addressed it should be done properly, rather than a hacky workaround in the notifications code.
This problem doesn't occur any more (even when magic links are enabled using $wgEnableMagicLinks['RFC'] = true;). It was probably fixed by rECHO6eea6d93a137: Used parsed section titles for anchors in September 2016.