Last modified: 2013-09-12 19:48:02 UTC
Not much to explain. If you use the new stripprefix=1 checkbox at [[Special:PrefixIndex]] and you use an existing page name as the prefix the first link is stripped to an empty string and therefor completely hidden. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/WP:WikiProject_Comics?stripprefix=1 The resulting HTML looks like this (no content between <a> and </a>): <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Comics" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics"></a> Not sure if this should be a "major" bug because it could make you think an existing page does not exist. Simply solution: Display the unstripped page name in case the stripped page name matches /^\s*$/s. This would be a lot more useful in my opinion than a constant replacement.
That is unfortunate, when I wrote this I used a prefix with a trailing slash '/' to simply get rid of the parent page. We could indeed show the full prefix and properly display it.
Change 82029 had a related patch set uploaded by Matmarex: SpecialPrefixindex: Try not to generate unclickable links https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/82029
Change 82029 merged by jenkins-bot: SpecialPrefixindex: Try not to generate unclickable links https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/82029
