Last modified: 2014-02-25 14:54:58 UTC
The API's pages section always returns a normalized name, while the allmessages section returns whatever you passed (i.e., the unnormalized name). The following query demonstrates the issue. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?titles=MediaWiki:1movedto2_redir&action=query&prop=info&meta=allmessages&ammessages=1movedto2_redir&format=jsonfm Compare with: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?titles=MediaWiki:1movedto2%20redir&action=query&prop=info&meta=allmessages&ammessages=1movedto2%20redir&format=jsonfm