https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34098
Eduard Braun <eduard.bra...@gmx.de> changed:
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--- Comment #10 from Eduard Braun <eduard.bra...@gmx.de> ---
I'd even call this a severe bug:
Normally display title and page name (e.g. what {{FULLPAGENAME}} returns) are
supposed to be equivalent. So I can copy/paste the display title into my
browser's URL bar and reach the correct page. Or I can copy/paste the display
title into a Wikilink and it links to the correct page. The only function that
can normally change a display title (the {{DISPLAYTITLE:}} magic word) makes
sure that this is *always* true.
With the possibility to translate display titles, we *break* this fundamental
and important functionality. If I use a translated display title as an URL or
in a Wikilink, I'm most likely to end up with a red-link to a non-existent
page. This is very bad since it conceals the real page name. How are people not
involved into technical stuff supposed to understand what the actual name of a
page is (if not what is displayed as a header)?
I'd strongly recommend to fix this bug and by default disable page title
translations. They severely break stuff!
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