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Confirm email does not use localized special page name
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The confirm email of the release-de wiki send e-mail with english special pagename but german text, when creating an account.

http://prototype.wikimedia.org/release-de/Special:ConfirmEmail/*
http://prototype.wikimedia.org/release-de/Special:Invalidateemail/*

A click on the first link redirects to the localized special pagename:

http://prototype.wikimedia.org/release-de/Spezial:E-Mail_bestaetigen/*

I have not tested this on 1.16wmf.

Version: 1.17.x
Severity: enhancement

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 11:12 PM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Email.
• bzimport set Reference to bz27144.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
Umherirrender created this task.Feb 3 2011, 8:42 PM
• brion added a comment.Feb 4 2011, 3:43 AM

This is intentional, to keep the links shorter and ASCII-friendly. Localized names, especially for non-latin scripts, can be veeerrrryyyyyyyyyyy long and cause breaking over lines etc.

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