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Author: wmf.amgine3691

Description:
On Wikinews under 1.5beta1, some articles which are clearly linked from other
pages are found on the Special:Lonelypages.

Example is [[Voyager 1 enters heliosheath at edge of solar system]], which is
linked from a user's page and is also on the archive page
[[Wikinews:2005/May/24]]. This may also indicate a larger bug, as


Version: 1.5.x
Severity: minor
URL: http://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Lonelypages&limit=250&offset=0

Details

Reference
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Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 8:37 PM
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lowzl wrote:

I quote from the top of Special:Lonelypages: "The following data is cached and
may not be completely up to date."

The latter issue may indicate that the links table is no longer current and
needs refreshing.

zigger wrote:

(In reply to comment #1)

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Special:Whatlinkshere/Voyager_1_enters_heliosheath_at_edge_of_solar_system

does not indicate all links to the article.

Reported at bug 340.

zigger wrote:

Perhaps the strike-out approach from bug 2630 fix could also be done for
Special:Lonelypages ?

robchur wrote:

Comment #2 sums it up.