On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Max
Semenik<maxsem.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
O RLY?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/?action=edit&oldid=-1
Apparently, the "I don't know the title" situation is still handled as
"what the hell, let's assign just soooomething useful to it, 'Main
Page' looks just fine" in some places.
Different strategies for different actions:
action=view: redirect to /wiki/Main Page
action=delete: bad title
action=(anything else): assume 'Main Page' without redirect
According to brions story, I would think the logical system would be to
action=view: redirect to /wiki/Main Page
action=(anything else): bad title
And, if I understand correctly, the fix should be changing all 'empty'
interlanguage links to 'main page' or their local equivalent.
-Merlijn
Also note how for missing oldid values and no title parameter (eg.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=1234567890> or
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/?oldid=1234567890>) it explicitely says
that the page you wanted was called "Main Page" which is a completely
wrong assumption. It simply doesn't know what name it that page should have.