Author: chaos
Description:
The RSS feeds for non-existant pages are getting spurious updates about other, unrelated pages, being renamed. Examples:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image:Madison_Wisconsin_Flag.svg&feed=rss&action=history - Page used to exist; was moved to Mediawiki.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image_talk:Varicella_computer_game_screenshot.png&feed=atom&action=history - Page never existed, but matching article does.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Olitext&feed=atom&action=history - Deleted article
The feed contains reported updates and links that to the matching article's history. Since the article doesn't exist, obviously the links don't work.
Expected behavior: No updates. Perhaps an empty feed, or a feed with a single static entry (with a non-changing GUID and date!) saying that no such article exists.
Now it may seem silly to follow feeds for non-existant pages, but it an be useful if you want to know if a page is later created. This is especially likely if you are following an article that does exist, but no matching talk page yet exists.
Version: unspecified
Severity: normal