[Wikitech-l] Question: Hook:LinkEnd and Title::getNamespace method for internal page ( such as User or User_talk page ) where the target page does not exist

Hello,

today I have a Sunday support question to the linker and hooks experts.

I know Hook:LinkEnd and use this almost successfully in an extension to "tag" User and User_talk page with an additional attribute.

$wgHooks['LinkEnd'][] = 'wfWikiArticleFeedsAddSignatureMarker'; ... # https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Hooks/LinkEnd function wfWikiArticleFeedsAddSignatureMarker( $skin, $title, $options, $text, &$attribs, $ret ) { if ( $title->getNamespace() == NS_USER) { $attribs['userpage-link'] = 'true'; } elseif ( $title->getNamespace() == NS_USER_TALK ) { $attribs['usertalkpage-link'] = 'true'; } return true; }

This works perfectly as long as the page exists, but fail to add the attribute, if a "redlink" is created because the page does not exist.

I suppose that the getNamespace fails in this case, Perhaps a patch in Linker.php is required to set Namespace already if the page is non-existent.

Question: ======= How can I add my attribute as shown also for such links which point to a non-existing User or Usertalk page ?