On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 1:58 AM, Robert Ullmann rlullmann@gmail.com wrote:
Like this:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:AllPages/Hill
used to display 480 titles starting at "Hill". Now it does what PrefixIndex does. If I wanted that, I'd use Prefixindex. How do we get access to the original function? (And I don't understand the bit about "excessively long output" at all, it always displayed 480 titles (except at the end of the wiki).
As far as I can tell, formerly the URL you gave did nothing at all. r39427 http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki?view=rev&revision=39427 appears to have allowed subpage syntax to be used for AllPages; if I undo that commit then AllPages/Foo returns the same page as plain old AllPages. Your suggested behavior appears more sensible in any event, though.
I'm not really sympathetic to bot authors who screen-scrape special pages instead of using the API, though.