Russell Blau schreef: > "Roan Kattouw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> Carl Beckhorn schreef: >> >>> It's already known among the developers that there can be obsolete >>> entries in the page table. One of these at the moment is pageid 414115 >>> on enwiki, the article [[/.]], which has an illegal title. >>> Unsurprisingly, >>> when that page was last edited, it was a redirect to [[Slashdot]]. >>> >>> >> That's the database's fault, not the API's. If this causes trouble, >> someone should write a maintenance script to delete these ghost pages. >> > > Well, I'm the one who posted about this on enwiki, and was told in no > uncertain terms by Tim Starling that it's the API's fault, not the > database's. > Even the big guys make a mistake here and there (although they do so less frequently), they're human too. The point here is that the UI has exactly the same flaw ([[Special:Whatlinkshere/Slashdot]]) also links to [[/.]], which, when clicked, displays an invalid title error). The fact that these titles are still in the DB is not the API's fault (nor the UI's, BTW). > The problem is that if the invalid title retrieved from one query is used in > the titles= parameter of another query, the API returns a Bad Title error on > the entire query (even if there are 50 titles |'ed together). That's bug 13390 [1], only very distinctly related to this issue. > Some possible > solutions to this, in no particular order: > > 1) delete the damn page entry from the database > That should happen. Someone (not me, I suck at that) should write a maintenance script for that. > 2) change the API so that, if there is a bad title in the titles= > parameter, it still returns the query result for all the valid titles. > That's what I'm gonna do when I fix bug 13390 (it's on my TODO list). > 3) change the API so that it doesn't return the invalid page entry in the > first place (probably not such a good idea, now that I think about it) > > Exactly.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope) [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13390 _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
