Link in notification points to unexpected destination due to magic linking ("RFC #")
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	Jul 18 2014, 2:53 PM

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Author: joshuaissac2000-guard

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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.

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		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Open		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

Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 3:28 AM

• bzimport added a project: Notifications.

• bzimport set Reference to bz68217.

• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

• bzimport created this task.Jul 18 2014, 2:53 PM

Ugh, magic linking is silly :(

• werdna removed a subscriber: • werdna.Dec 10 2014, 5:03 PM

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

Legoktm moved this task from Backlog to Needs code on the Notifications board.Jul 6 2015, 8:18 AM

Restricted Application added a project: Collaboration-Team-Triage. · View Herald TranscriptJul 6 2015, 8:18 AM

Scott added a subscriber: Scott.May 26 2016, 2:10 PM

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Scott added a subtask: T47942: "Magic links" RFC, PMID and ISBN should be configurable and disableable.May 26 2016, 2:12 PM

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.

matmarex mentioned this in T136342: Kill automatic RFC linking.May 26 2016, 6:23 PM

Ricordisamoa added a subscriber: Ricordisamoa.May 29 2016, 9:41 AM

Danny_B added a subtask: T136342: Kill automatic RFC linking.Jul 2 2016, 6:26 AM

Legoktm closed subtask T47942: "Magic links" RFC, PMID and ISBN should be configurable and disableable as Resolved.Sep 13 2016, 9:06 AM

Legoktm removed a subtask: T136342: Kill automatic RFC linking.

SBisson mentioned this in W2269 Echo Tasks.Apr 17 2019, 3:00 PM

Aklapper edited projects, added Growth-Team; removed Collaboration-Team-Triage.Oct 12 2019, 4:08 AM