Last modified: 2014-02-28 23:42:41 UTC
Occasionally wiki links are being mangled adding ./ to the start and replacing spaces with underscores. For example replacing [[specific name (zoology)|specific epithet]] with [[./Specific_name_(zoology)|specific epithet]]. I've only noticed it with piped links. Examples https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Austropotamobius_pallipes&curid=3945333&diff=562783871&oldid=545518009 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ron_Davies_(songwriter)&curid=31118393&diff=562723238&oldid=553701771 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sibling_relationship&curid=22409572&diff=562636237&oldid=561958868 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Double_Rainbow_(viral_video)&curid=28129724&diff=562626607&oldid=560477885 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roger_Mompesson&curid=39389398&diff=562625481&oldid=560045122 (also changed a category link) possibly related to bug 50428
Escalating priority. Additional example: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=OMICS_Publishing_Group&curid=35277259&diff=562944992&oldid=561579680
*** Bug 50539 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #1) > Escalating priority. Additional example: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index. > php?title=OMICS_Publishing_Group&curid=35277259&diff=562944992&oldid=56157968 > 0 I can't reproduce this, and can in fact edit the page just fine: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=OMICS_Publishing_Group&diff=563024944&oldid=562947045 This bug must have some particularly nasty cache persistence properties; we've purged the Parsoid caches but that doesn't seem to have made it go away.
I think it might be to do with having punctuation in the links in this edit https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Soccer_in_the_United_States&diff=prev&oldid=563041224 this the links which have ' or ( in them which get mangled other links are ok so [[United States men's national soccer team|men's national team]] gets changed to [[./United_States_men's_national_soccer_team|men's national team]] but [[FIFA World Cup|World Cup]] is unchanged. And [[National Professional Soccer League (1967)|National Professional Soccer League]] is changed to [[./National_Professional_Soccer_League_(1967)|National Professional Soccer League]].
According to https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Technik/Text/Edit/VisualEditor/Beta2013-07#VE_zerschie.C3.9Ft_Kats_und_Wikilinks this seems to be an issue in old Firefox: FF14 inserted the ./, while FF22 didn't.
Confirmed in Firefox 14. Steps to reproduce: 1) Open https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HELLP_syndrome?veaction=edit as a logged in user 2) Make an unrelated edit 3) Press "Save" and "Review your changes". The link [[Right upper quadrant (abdomen)|right upper quadrant]] is transformed to [[./Right_upper_quadrant_(abdomen)|right upper quadrant]].
Can reproduce in Firefox 13 and 14; cannot reproduce in 15 or 17 or 20. Interestingly in Firefox 13 I get a little bit more normalization in the diff as well. Looks like we get more progressively more broken the further down we go. :P
Change 72675 had a related patch set uploaded by Jforrester: Blacklist Firefox 13 and 14 too https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/72675
Change 72675 merged by jenkins-bot: Blacklist Firefox 13 and 14 too https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/72675
We believe that this should not recur due to the (hopefully-temporary) blacklisting of Firefox 13 and 14, which is now live in production. Consequently, I'm marking this bug as fixed. Please re-open if you find it happening again.
I think you viewed this bug solely as a blocker to bug 50848. I agree that it no longer is, but I don't believe this bug is now resolved/fixed. The issue hasn't been fixed, as I understand it, just worked around. I'm re-opening the bug, but removing bug 50848 as a blocker, lowering the importance fields, and clarifying the bug summary.
(In reply to comment #11) > I think you viewed this bug solely as a blocker to bug 50848. I agree that it > no longer is, but I don't believe this bug is now resolved/fixed. The issue > hasn't been fixed, as I understand it, just worked around. I'm re-opening the > bug, but removing bug 50848 as a blocker, lowering the importance fields, and > clarifying the bug summary. Well, had you given me more than 30 seconds I was in the middle of creating a new bug, but never mind. :-) Repurposing this one.
Just wondering, has anybody tested VE on those old Firefoxes somewhat recently? The codebase is changing so fast this might as well be magically fixed now.
