https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47449
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Bug ID: 47449
Summary: {{#special:}} parser function should not return
textual error message for unknown special pages
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
URL: http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_parserfunction
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: minor
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Parser
Assignee: wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Reporter: morme...@centrum.cz
Classification: Unclassified
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When the {{#special:}} parser function is called with an unknown special page
name, it currently returns “No such special page” ({{int:nosuchspecialpage}}),
i.e. a user-readable textual message where a page name is expected. (Or, in
other words, instead of a title of a page in NS_SPECIAL, it returns a title in
NS_MAIN.) This is especially strange in the {{#speciale:}} variant (which
returns “No_such_special_page”).
This is surprising behavior. It would be more logical to just return the
requested title (we are unable to return the _localized_ title of the special
page, so just use the given one). (Or, an alternative solution would be to
always return Special:Badtitle.)
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