Page MenuHomePhabricator

Disambiguation pages aren't showing in Special:Disambiguations
Closed, ResolvedPublic

Description

Author: tim

Description:
On 1.15.2, and I just noticed that pages with {{disambig}} aren't listed under Special:Disambiguations.

MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage is set correctly (Template:Disambig), so I cannot see where there is a configuration error... seems like a defect.


Version: 1.15.x
Severity: normal

Details

Reference
bz23017

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 11:06 PM
bzimport set Reference to bz23017.
bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

Note: Special:Disambiguations list pages containing links to disambiguation pages, not disambiguation pages themselves.

tim wrote:

*Ahem* oops... Right, that's what I meant.

After further research, it looks like the "error" is that Special:Disambiguations lists only the pages from the MAIN NAMESPACE.

Looking at SpecialDisambiguations.php, there's a comment that makes it seem like this was the intended behavior.

So I guess this is less of a bug and more of a "why"? Also, I could fix this on my wiki (if I wanted), but that may not help everyone else. But if there was a reason to include only the MAIN NS, then I guess this could just be closed as "by design."

Bryan.TongMinh wrote:

It could be made a config setting.

Or it could just rely on $wgContentNamespaces?

tim wrote:

MZMcBride seems to have the best idea...