Merlijn van Deen wrote: > On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Max Semenik<[email protected]> wrote: >> O RLY? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/?action=edit&oldid=-1 >> Apparently, the "I don't know the title" situation is still handled as >> "what the hell, let's assign just soooomething useful to it, 'Main >> Page' looks just fine" in some places. > > Different strategies for different actions: > action=view: redirect to /wiki/Main Page > action=delete: bad title > action=(anything else): assume 'Main Page' without redirect > > According to brions story, I would think the logical system would be to > action=view: redirect to /wiki/Main Page > action=(anything else): bad title > > And, if I understand correctly, the fix should be changing all 'empty' > interlanguage links to 'main page' or their local equivalent. > > -Merlijn
Also note how for missing oldid values and no title parameter (eg. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=1234567890> or <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/?oldid=1234567890>) it explicitely says that the page you wanted was called "Main Page" which is a completely wrong assumption. It simply doesn't know what name it that page should have. _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
