Author: wikipedia
Description:
The Apache or MediaWiki configuration for Wikipedia appears to decode percent-encoded "/"s and ":"s in URLs.
This means that, for example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AAbout shows the same page as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About.
Similarly, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk%3AArbitration%2FRequests%2FCase%2FShakespeare_authorship_question%2FProposed_decision is a valid URL for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Shakespeare_authorship_question/Proposed_decision.
The escaping results in incredibly-verbose robots.txt rules, see https://en.wikipedia.org/robots.txt , but even our existing rules don't account for %2Fs in place of "/"s.
We should either redirect or reject these URLs.
Version: wmf-deployment
Severity: normal