Last modified: 2014-08-22 23:05:07 UTC
I. How to reproduce the issue: 1) Switch your interface language to A (where A is a language different from the default language of this wiki). 2) Edit any page that has a redlink. 3) Logout. Open the page you just edited and put a mouse over the redlink. The tooltip will be shown in language A. But it must be shown in the default language of this wiki. II. Impact: foreign interwiki bots change tooltips on every article they touch. III. Possible cause: this interface message is somehow cached improperly. action=purge restores the correct value.
The interface message in question is [[MediaWiki:Red-link-title]]
Suggested fix. diff -up a/Linker.php b/Linker.php --- a/Linker.php 2014-08-22 19:25:52.676415475 +0400 +++ b/Linker.php 2014-08-22 19:25:52.255413597 +0400 @@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ class Linker { } elseif ( in_array( 'known', $options ) ) { $defaults['title'] = $target->getPrefixedText(); } else { - $defaults['title'] = wfMessage( 'red-link-title', $target->getPrefixedText() )->text(); + $defaults['title'] = wfMessage( 'red-link-title', $target->getPrefixedText() )->inContentLanguage()->text(); } # Finally, merge the custom attribs with the default ones, and iterate
Thanks for taking the time to report this and investigating! If you feel like cooking a patch, you are welcome to use Developer access https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_access to submit this as a Git branch directly into Gerrit: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/Tutorial Putting your branch in Git makes it easier to review it quickly. If you don't want to set up Git/Gerrit, you can also use https://tools.wmflabs.org/gerrit-patch-uploader/ Thanks again!
see also or duplicate: bug 32686
This is a vexata quaestio; several attempts were made and failed. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 32686 ***
