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Author: gangleri

Description:
Hallo!

The url lists many redirects from titles which render as whitespace.

In order to access these pages users must look at the source code of the pages,
copy relevant parts from the urls and build the right url manualy.

A workaround would be to append an underscore as <a ...>foo_</a>. This would
break actual behaviour but might be helpfull to fight vandalism.

*notes*
a) Any printable character could be used either as heading or trailing character
to make those links visible. One should prefer characters with neutral
directionality.
b) "space" is not suitable because of Tidy; see
http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Gangleri#Tidy
c) If such a "feature" would be introduced all / most special pages are / would
be affected.

I am not shure if a Java utility installed via users /monobook.js would help.

best regards reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]


Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Whatlinkshere/Character_%28computing%29&limit=500&from=550

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Reference
bz5735

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 21 2014, 9:12 PM
bzimport set Reference to bz5735.
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wegge wrote:

Could you please point out an example of a redirect that renders as whitespace?
I've been through the whole list, without seeing such a specimen. I think it's
an issue with your browser.

This bug is irrelevant; any such title is invalid and should be blocked by fixes to the title validation.

  • This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 3696 ***

gangleri wrote:

screenshot for bugzilla 05735 using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060308 Firefox/1.5.0.2

as discussed on IRC with Wegge

Titles as &nbsp; Zero width space etc would render the same (without generating
clickable links).

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