https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58793
TMg <mr.h...@gmx.de> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEW Ever confirmed|0 |1 --- Comment #12 from TMg <mr.h...@gmx.de> --- Check [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:fullurl::]] in every MediaWiki installation, e.g. [[de:Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:fullurl::]]. And this is only the tip of the iceberg. See [[en:Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:fullurl:]], for example. I'm not even sure if all now broken uses of the fullurl syntax can be found that way. Please note that users already started to fix the most annoying cases. I really don't understand why you are refusing to accept this report. It's a broken functionality. You can confirm it very, very easily: Try to use [{{fullurl::|diff=90530056}}] on a random page. It does not work any more. Confirmed. It's really, really simple: This still is a perfectly valid URL: https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=&diff=90530056 In other words, it's allowed to use an empty title in an URL. It wouldn't make any sense to block such URLs because of the title. Therefor this use of fullurl must be valid too: {{fullurl:|diff=90530056}} It doesn't make any sense to force a valid title if it's ignored anyway. Same with the colon in {{fullurl::|diff=90530056}}. The colon separates namespaces and interwiki prefixes from the title. We are using empty prefixes regularly, e.g. in ":File:Example.jpg". https://en.wikipedia.org/w/?title=Main_page is a valid URL. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/?title=en:Main_page is a valid URL. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/?title=:Main_page is a valid URL. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/?title= is a valid URL. Therefor https://en.wikipedia.org/w/?title=: must be valid to. It does not make sense to allow everything else but to block this specific case. It's an empty title (which is resolved to the main page) prefixed with a colon. We are used to this pattern when linking to a File or Category. Why block it? I don't care if you call it an "abuse" or "hack" or whatever. We are using it. Every single use had a meaning and a purpose and produced a working URL. There was no problem. Now it's broken. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l