[Mediawiki-l] Special:MostLinkedPages

This has been discussed on the mailing list about 6 weeks ago (though I was not subscribed at that time)

Special:MostLinkedPages appears to be broken:

Fatal error: Call to a member function getPrefixedDBkey() on a non-object in mediawiki/includes/specials/SpecialMostlinked.php on line 64

This is indeed caused by a bug in this PHP file. It can be fixed by changing the original code:

    function makeWlhLink( &$title, $caption, &$skin ) {
            $wlh = SpecialPage::getTitleFor( 'Whatlinkshere', $title->getPrefixedDBkey() );
            return $skin->makeKnownLinkObj( $wlh, $caption );
    }

to:

    function makeWlhLink( &$title, $caption, &$skin ) {
            $wlh = SpecialPage::getTitleFor( 'Whatlinkshere', $title );
            return $skin->makeKnownLinkObj( $wlh, $caption );
    }

It took 5 minutes to find and fix the bug, and 55 minutes to submit it to bugzilla (apparently the site seems to be under heavy load). https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18943

With kind regards, Freek Dijkstra