When using Special:Export to export from the Project namespace, the <title> values should say <title>Project:ArticleName</title>. Instead, they say <title>$wgSiteName:ArticleName</title>.
For example, if you use Special:Export on a wiki (say, Wiki1) to create an XML file, then import into another wiki, Wiki2, then you will create the wrongly-named article "Wiki1:About" in Wiki2. This is bad and unexpected. Special:Export should use the exact article names chosen by the user doing the export.
Steps to Reproduce:
- Visit Special:Export on English Wikipedia.
- Enter "Project:About" and click the Export button.
- Examine the <title> tag and you'll see: <title>Wikipedia:About</title>, rather than <title>Project:About</title>. This is the bug.
- Now import the XML dump into another wiki. You create the wrongly-named article "Wikipedia:About" instead of "Project:About". This is the bad effect of the bug.
Version: 1.20.x
Severity: normal
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62109