Category should output [[:Category:Foo]] not [[Category:Foo]]
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	Trevor-at-Wikia
	Oct 6 2014, 4:47 PM

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Pages with a <link rel="mw:PageProp/redirect" href="./Category:Foo"> but without a <link rel="mw:WikiLink/Category" href="./Category:Foo"> should be serialised to [[:Category:Foo]] per the spec, but instead are becoming [[Category:Foo]] which (a) is wrong and (b) doesn't round-trip.

Original VE complaint:

The VE's Page Settings dialog redirect options work badly for category destinations.

For example, if you choose 'Category:Article stubs' as your destination, it inserts this:

#REDIRECT [[Category:Article stubs]]

While this does redirect the page, it also places that page in the "Article stubs" category.

It *should* put this on the page:

#REDIRECT [[:Category:Article stubs]]

Note the additional ":" - this prevents the category being interpreted wrongly.

https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=VisualEditor:Redirecttest&action=history

Version: unspecified
Severity: minor
OS: Mac OS X 10.9
Platform: Macintosh

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Reference: bz71708

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Mentioned In: rGPARa9dd0d2cbdbe: T73708: Serialize category redirects with a ':'

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 3:48 AM

• bzimport added a project: VisualEditor-EditingTools.

• bzimport set Reference to bz71708.

Trevor-at-Wikia created this task.Oct 6 2014, 4:47 PM

Jdforrester-WMF added a project: VisualEditor.Nov 24 2014, 4:30 PM

Krenair subscribed.Dec 13 2014, 1:17 AM

I wonder if there is any use case for allowing the version without ":" with these namespaces, even if it should clearly not be the default. I don't think we want to add an extra button for something so obscure to most users.

Jdforrester-WMF renamed this task from VisualEditor: redirect option works badly if pointing to category pages to mw:PageProp/redirect to a Category when there's no matching mw:WikiLink/Category should output [[:Category:Foo]] not [[Category:Foo]].Mar 5 2015, 10:25 PM

Jdforrester-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)

Jdforrester-WMF edited projects, added Parsoid, Parsoid-Serializer; removed VisualEditor, VisualEditor-EditingTools.

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• ssastry triaged this task as Medium priority.Mar 11 2015, 11:47 PM

• marcoil claimed this task.Mar 16 2015, 11:57 AM

Change 197035 had a related patch set uploaded (by Marcoil):
T73708: Serialize category redirects with a ':'

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/197035

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Mar 16 2015, 1:07 PM

What about files?

In T73708#1126551, @Krenair wrote:

What about files?

What's the situation with files? Should they also be serialized with a ':'?

Change 197035 merged by jenkins-bot:
T73708: Serialize category redirects with a ':'

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/197035

In T73708#1131553, @marcoil wrote:

In T73708#1126551, @Krenair wrote:

What about files?

What's the situation with files? Should they also be serialized with a ':'?

Hmm... After doing some more checking, I think it may be OK without a ':' actually. Ignore me.

This change was deployed on March 19.

• marcoil mentioned this in rGPARa9dd0d2cbdbe: T73708: Serialize category redirects with a ':'.Apr 8 2015, 4:28 PM

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