Author: charlottethewebb
Description:
# or foobar links to a null page name rather than a null section. The example links point to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ which redirects to the main page.
(except for ## which points to the current url plus "#.23")
As far as html literalism goes the least astonishing behavior for # would be to make a link like this <a href="#">#</a>
that would be the same as "#top" except in cases where it is overridden by a javascript onClick attribute (which it is, most times you see anything like this).
course if there's some way to make it turn blue and clickable but not actually do anything that might be best... i'm not sure when this would intentionally be used except when attempting to create a blue link that does nothing ever.
That's how i stumbled upon it after all :-/
Version: 1.21.x
Severity: trivial
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=263850468
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45583