On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Simetrical Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 1:49 PM, vasilievvv@svn.wikimedia.org wrote:
Remove "(not written yet)" text from title (introduced in r31140. It broke many bots which used title attribute of link for getting its target.
Any bot that uses title for that purpose seems to me to be seriously broken. Isn't that exactly what href is for? Normalizing href is not hard.
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See also https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13111. A lot of javascripts rely on the title attribute to determine the page a link is pointing to.
Bryan