Originally noticed when I viewed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.186?redirect=no and got a bunch of exceptions from getting started. Maybe related to bug 50023
var t = new mw.Title( '.1' );
Error: mw.Title: Could not parse title ".1" { message="mw.Title: Could not parse title ".1"", more...}
Browser: firefox 3.5
Version: 1.22.0
Severity: normal
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39642
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | None | T52023 Unable to mark certain articles as patrolled | |||
| Resolved | None | T54683 "Old" is broken: Error: mw.Title: Could not parse title ".digamma" | |||
| Resolved | None | T53308 mw.Title cannot parse titles starting with a period. |
It also kinda fails on all titles with a dot in it, due to themisguided "file extension" support it has…
(new mw.Title( 'A.B' )).getNameText()
"A"
This causes the VE edit tab to not load on a page starting with only one period.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Framework_version_history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.007
Several periods in a row work fine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....And_Proud
Unrelated bug: special:prefixindex doesnt work for '.'
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&prefix=.&namespace=0
There are two and bit pages of articles with this problem is here:
(In reply to comment #2)
This causes the VE edit tab to not load on a page starting with only one
period.
CC'ing James :)
Unrelated bug: special:prefixindex doesnt work for '.'
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&prefix=.
&namespace=0
Split to bug 52010. Short version is Special:prefixindex doesn't work with prefixes that aren't valid titles. ( '.' is not a valid title because web browsers get confused and think its unix relative directory syntax)
VE team will work on this in the next few days unless someone wants to grab it from us before that. :-)
(In reply to comment #1)
It also kinda fails on all titles with a dot in it, due to themisguided "file
extension" support it has…(new mw.Title( 'A.B' )).getNameText()
"A"
This is imho irrelevant and expected behaviour. If you call #getNameText you're explicitly asking to get the page title without any prefix it may have (which, since extensions have little meaning in MediaWiki, can be in any namespace).
You're looking for mw.Title#getMainText [1].
https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/js/#!/api/mw.Title-method-getMainText
(Sorry, I believed I just filed https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52467 :/ )