Ilmari Karonen wrote:
It seems r40830, which merged the LinkSearch extension
into core, as a
side effect changed the canonical name of Special:Linksearch from
"Linksearch" to "LinkSearch".
This happened to break one of my user scripts on en.wikipedia, which was
checking the canonical name in order to add some extra links to the
output of that special page. I realize that this is a minor annoyance,
and that fixing it took me all of one minute once I figured out what was
wrong, but could folks still _please_ try to avoid doing that in the
future? The canonical names are supposed to be canonical for a reason,
so that scripts can reliably tell what page they're running on. Don't
break them without a good reason.
Thank you, and we'll now return to your scheduled programming.
How about: please break them all at once, rather than one at a time? And
rename the files while you're at it. Then you can announce it, and we can
get all the migration issues out of the way. Nobody likes working out
where the word breaks are meant to be.
-- Tim Starling