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Special:PrefixIndex goes ahead and finds a mess without first being asked
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Why does [[Special:PrefixIndex]] go ahead and find things before it has been told what to find?

E.g., click on the above URL. You see it has "wastefully" found "everything starting with what it thinks is a null pattern" or something.

Why can't it wait until someone has filled out the box instead of forging ahead and finding junk nobody is interested in "for free" without being asked?


Version: 1.17.x
Severity: trivial
URL: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex

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Reference
bz26024

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 11:14 PM
bzimport set Reference to bz26024.
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Indeed click [[Special:PrefixIndex]] right here, and be greeted with F* Y, at least twice. How flabbergasting. Right beneath a photo of Jimmy too.

  • This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 23923 ***