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Version namespace links

It appears that the recent update has caused version pages to link back to mainspace, instead of linking within their own version namespace automatically. For example, 40d:Potash_maker links to Potash, while 40d:Potash is the expected link. --Loci (talk) 15:04, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Looks like you're correct. I'll have to investigate and see what the fix is. --Briess (talk) 20:17, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Double redirects to sections

Though the wiki software is supposed to handle double redirects, it appears to fail when the redirect is to a subsection of a page -- see calm, for instance. --Zzedar (talk) 03:40, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Interesting. I will investigate, thanks for the report. --Briess (talk) 03:41, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Looking into it a bit more, it seems there are a lot of double redirects that don't work properly, even when they're not to subsections; fishing, for instance.--Zzedar (talk) 17:17, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

If I remember correctly, Loci pointed that out, but the original discussion was archived. It's probably a problem with the cv: alias (as this revision on Fishing redirects correctly). --Lethosor (talk) 17:25, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

That's been my hunch so far, but I haven't had enough time to fully flesh out the problem just yet. Please keep me posted if y'all find any other edge cases. --Briess (talk) 17:27, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

This manual page seems to be relevant. I just tested this scenario on another wiki (1.20.2) and ran into the exact same situation (with a double redirect from page -> foo:page -> foo:page2 failing). This may be a problem with MediaWiki as opposed to this specific namespace scheme (although MediaWiki seems to discourage double redirects, according to Special:DoubleRedirects). I'll try testing on 1.20.3 next, but it probably produces the same result. --Lethosor (talk) 17:41, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Actually, no double redirects seem to resolve, according to my tests, even in the same namespace. --Lethosor (talk) 17:43, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Double_redirects seems to state this clearly. I'm not sure if there is a workaround, or what it would be. --Lethosor (talk) 17:46, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

https://gist.github.com/locriani/e43abff805d5cdd6c4ac is the current settings we use (as well as the hack to allow in-namespace redirect) --Briess (talk) 17:49, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

There are a few that work; milking does, for instance. Actually, I did some testing: making a dummy edit to the first redirect seems to fix the problem -- I deleted a space from wrestler, and now it works where it didn't before. However, null edits do not work.--Zzedar (talk) 17:54, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Rating script

A few problems with the rating script seem to have popped up with the new software (these are probably more related to User:Emi, but you seem to be more active at the moment):

• jsMsg() now fades out after a few seconds, preventing the automatic tests from completing in a few cases
• Clicking a checkbox propagates up to the message box, causing it to fade out and preventing any further action (and showing it again with $("#mw-notification-area").show() doesn't work, because the text is cleared when it disappears).

The easiest solution here is probably to display the interface somewhere else, instead of using the notification system.

For the time being, I can rate articles manually, but it would be nice if someone could look into this. --Lethosor (talk) 14:51, 13 April 2013 (UTC)