On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 03:56:48PM -0400, Russell Blau wrote:
"Roan Kattouw" <roan.kattouw(a)home.nl>
said:
That's the database's fault, not the
API's. If this causes trouble,
someone should write a maintenance script to delete these ghost pages.
Well, I'm the one who posted about this on enwiki, and was told in no
uncertain terms by Tim Starling that it's the API's fault, not the
database's.
The existence of the invalid titles is the database's fault. However,
I seem to recall from past experience that the general philosophy
is for Mediawiki to handle them gracefully. That's the light in
which I read Tim's comments.
2) change the API so that, if there is a bad title in
the titles=
parameter, it still returns the query result for all the valid titles.
There is an open bug report about that:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13390
- Carl