On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Petr Kadlec<petr.kadlec(a)gmail.com> wrote:
This has been changed in r38751 due to bug #15035,
see
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/38751 and
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15035
I would say the apostrophe change is just a (possibly unintended?)
side effect of the change.
r38751 just reverted r36253 and restored how the link trail had always
behaved. The change was only on trunk from June 13 to August 7, 2008,
and probably on Wikipedia for only a couple of weeks. It would have
nothing to do with any recent change.
Are you sure that [[Pink Floyd]]'s ever worked in the past? We could
probably special-case <'s>, but we likely don't want to trigger off
<s'> lest we mess up things like <"I don't know what these
'[[linktrail]]s' you're talking about are", she said.>. So it's
probably most consistent to stick with what we have now, and have
always had AFAICT.