https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24296
Summary: Bots excluded from flexible use of article title
provided by lang. conv.
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: trivial
Priority: Normal
Component: API
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected]
Range:
This problem concerns bots, and is present on SR.WP, but could be present on
all wikis that use language conversion.
Time of occurrence:
By the best of my observation, it came along with a new method of login
authentication.
Description:
As probably yet known, an article on SR.WP can have title either in Cyrillic or
Latin script, but a simple user can also type the title in the other script to
get the proper content. For example:
The article called "Вектор" could be also called as "Vektor", and the bot would
be getting the contents of the article.
This is how it worked for the bots previously: they could request title in
either script and get the right results. Since the things changed, the bot MUST
pick the right script or it will get result as if the page didn't exist.
Can this be brought to the previous state?
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