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If the last key's value in the query string is empty, then the trailing semicolon appears to be its value.  For example,

  mw.eventLog.schemas.GettingStarted.defaults = {};
  mw.eventLog.logEvent( 'GettingStarted', {anon: false, action: "x", token: ""} );

validates OK but logs as /event.gif?_db=my_wiki&_id=GettingStarted&_rv=4910146&_ok=true&anon=false&action=x&token=;

and DevServer.php interprets this final parameter as { token: ";" }.  The server log2json.py code strips the semicolon (using parse_qsl(q.strip('?;')) ) so that endpoint doesn't experience this bug.

One fix might be to always pad the query string with &;, in logEvent()
    beacon.src = baseUri + '?' + queryString + '&;';


This bug will go away when and if we encode a JSON structure in the query string, as its key values are delimited by JSON punctuation.