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Bug 40010 - Special:Export changes Project namespace prefix to SITENAME
Special:Export changes Project namespace prefix to SITENAME
Status: NEW
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Export/Import (Other open bugs)
1.20.x
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2012-09-05 16:31 UTC by Dan Barrett
Modified: 2014-03-01 19:55 UTC (History)
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Description Dan Barrett 2012-09-05 16:31:20 UTC 
When using Special:Export to export from the Project namespace, the <title> values should say <title>Project:ArticleName</title>. Instead, they say <title>$wgSiteName:ArticleName</title>.

For example, if you use Special:Export on a wiki (say, Wiki1) to create an XML file, then import into another wiki, Wiki2, then you will create the wrongly-named article "Wiki1:About" in Wiki2. This is bad and unexpected.  Special:Export should use the exact article names chosen by the user doing the export.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Visit Special:Export on English Wikipedia.
2. Enter "Project:About" and click the Export button.
3. Examine the <title> tag and you'll see: <title>Wikipedia:About</title>, rather than <title>Project:About</title>. This is the bug.
4. Now import the XML dump into another wiki. You create the wrongly-named article "Wikipedia:About" instead of "Project:About". This is the bad effect of the bug.
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