Last modified: 2013-07-24 09:49:39 UTC
I've experienced this problem for a long time now (at least one year!), but usually I'm not able to reproduce it. The steps are more or less as follows: 1) Open the following page in a new (anonymous) window, using Google Chrome (tried with version 28.0.1500.71): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BlankPage?uselang=en 2) Click in the search box 3) Type "Special:Prefix" and wait for the list of suggestions 4) Press the down arrow to select the first suggestion, which is "Special:PrefixIndex". This will change the content of the search field to this title. 5) Type "/A" after to get "Special:PrefixIndex/A" and press ENTER At this point, I'm taken to the page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex instead of what I want: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/A
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I can't reproduce this, but I can reproduce a very similar behaviour with a different search using Firefox 10: 1. Go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BlankPage?uselang=en (or any other page) 2. Focus the search box. 3. Type "down". 4. Press the down arrow to select "Download". 5. Type ":". 6. Press ENTER *quickly*. This removes the colon (like the "/A" is removed in the screencast) and takes you to https://en.wikipedia/wiki/Download. If you wait some time before you press ENTER in step 6, you will correctly be sent to http://dumps.wikimedia.org/.
I was now able to reproduce the original example. This also happens in Monobook skin, so this bug is MediaWiki core, probably in https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Fcore.git/e617dc6c8f2ce1d867ddadcd4bc3de098a84ff07/resources%2Fjquery%2Fjquery.suggestions.js#L409: When you press ENTER and there is still a selected suggestion, this suggestion will be used instead of what you entered in the search box.
