Helder Geovane Gomes de Lima wrote:
> 
> When we go to links such as:
> http://pt.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?action=edit&preload=Project:About&title=test
> http://pt.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?action=edit&preload=Project:About&title=MediaWiki:test
> we note that both "test"and "MediaWiki:test" doesn't exist. But using the
> preload parameter for the first page we get the text "#REDIRECT
> [[wikibooks:Sobre]]" preloaded although for the second we don't.
> 
> Is this the expected behavior for MediaWiki namespace?

No, it's probably a bug.  I suspect (without so much as glancing at the 
code) that the problem is in the part that, in effect, automatically 
preloads nonexistent MediaWiki: pages with the corresponding default 
system message when you try to edit them.

-- 
Ilmari Karonen

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