https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28500
Bug #: 28500
Summary: api returns missing title value on simple chinese
titles although index.php redirects to correct title
Product: MediaWiki
Version: wikimedia-deployment
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: major
Priority: Normal
Component: API
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
If you request http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/京奉铁路正阳门东车站 you will be redirected
to http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/京奉鐵路正陽門東車站
But if you request
http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=info&titles=%E4%BA%AC%E5%A5%89%E9%93%81%E8%B7%AF%E6%AD%A3%E9%98%B3%E9%97%A8%E4%B8%9C%E8%BD%A6%E7%AB%99
a missing error is returned and no hint is given that this page could be found
at
http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=info&titles=%E4%BA%AC%E5%A5%89%E9%90%B5%E8%B7%AF%E6%AD%A3%E9%99%BD%E9%96%80%E6%9D%B1%E8%BB%8A%E7%AB%99
So this rewritting must be implemented on all clients at the moment which could
be fault-prone because every client must implement its own rewritting. A server
implementation would also prevent problems on future changes if new languages
are added.
I think in this case api should return the same result as this is done on utf-8
normalisation on ml or ar:
If you request http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/അനിമേഷന്
http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/അനിമേഷൻ is returned and
http://ml.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=%E0%B4%85%E0%B4%A8%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%87%E0%B4%B7%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%8D%E2%80%8D
returns the correct page with a different title than requested.
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