https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26720

--- Comment #10 from Chad H. <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> What are we actually talking about validating for?
> I'm new to MediaWiki development and I was going to start on fixing this, but
> I'm not clear as to the issue at hand. The steps described ('#' case) no
> longer
> pass validation because the generated empty-string namespace gets rejected,
> but
> whether this means the bug was fixed in passing is not clear to me because
> I'm
> not sure what the actual bug is/was. Part of my confusion is also that I find
> the notion that '#' would be a uniquely problematic name suspect--Shouldn't
> it
> be something more like names beginning with '#'? But unless the site name
> gets
> used in db table names, I couldn't find any usage of # that seemed like it
> would make this a problem either way.
> 
> If it's not worth the trouble clarifying this for a newbie, no problem, but I
> think in that case the 'easy' keyword might be better removed.

I think the original main problem (of conflicting namespace names) was the
worse problem, which I fixed a long time ago.

I really don't think anything else needs fixing here at all.

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