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"Hard-coded" redirects for reserved characters and Weather-in-Londons
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Author: seahen123

Description:
It would be nice if http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/: could redirect to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colon, and if entering : in the search bar and clicking Go didn't necessarily lead to the Main Page. The same applies to |, [, ] and #. Why not create a page in MediaWiki namespace where redirects from invalid titles -- or from page titles that were used as intentionally permanent red links -- could be specified by admins?


Version: 1.12.x
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/#

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 9:55 PM
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(In reply to comment #0)

It would be nice if http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/: could redirect to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colon, and if entering : in the search bar and
clicking Go didn't necessarily lead to the Main Page. The same applies to |, [,
] and #.

I'm fairly sure there's another bug that covers this. This seems largely unrelated to the rest of the opening comment (below), in any case.

Why not create a page in MediaWiki namespace where redirects from
invalid titles -- or from page titles that were used as intentionally permanent
red links -- could be specified by admins?

I don't see the use-case for this feature. Is there a particular functionality you're looking for? "Bad" titles can now be prevented with the use of extensions (e.g., the TitleBlacklist extension). In addition, pages can be protected from creation in MediaWiki core nowadays. For demonstration purposes, it's always trivial to come up with a title that wouldn't exist on a particular wiki.

With this in mind, I'd recommend closing this bug.

(In reply to MZMcBride from comment #1)

With this in mind, I'd recommend closing this bug.

Ok.

Pppery changed the task status from Resolved to Declined.Aug 23 2020, 10:24 PM