https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28722
Bug #: 28722
Summary: mw.util.wikiUrlencode inconsistent with parser output
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Javascript
AssignedTo: wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
ReportedBy: russb...@hotmail.com
CC: tpars...@wikimedia.org
Classification: Unclassified
Although this function (mw.util.wikiUrlencode) does "Encode page titles for use
in a URL", it would be much more useful if it produced the same encoding as the
MediaWiki parser does internally. For example, this would make it useful in
jQuery selectors to select the <a> elements corresponding to particular page
titles. Where the encodings do not match up, the selector will not find the
element.
One such discrepancy is, on Wikipedia, the parser converts the link [[union]]
into the HTML code <a href="/wiki/Union">union</a>; but
mw.util.wikiUrlencode("union") returns "union" (lowercase).
Other inconsistencies:
wikiUrlencode does not collapse multiple spaces/underscores
(mw.util.wikiUrlencode("United States") returns "United___States", but the
parser produces <a href="/wiki/United_States">United States</a>;
wikiUrlencode converts (at least) the following characters to their
percent-encoded equivalents, but the parser does not: !@$%^()=
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