Helder Geovane Gomes de Lima wrote:
When we go to links such as:
http://pt.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?action=edit&preload=Project:About&a…
http://pt.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?action=edit&preload=Project:About&a…
we note that both "test"and "MediaWiki:test" doesn't exist. But
using the
preload parameter for the first page we get the text "#REDIRECT
[[wikibooks:Sobre]]" preloaded although for the second we don't.
Is this the expected behavior for MediaWiki namespace?
No, it's probably a bug. I suspect (without so much as glancing at the
code) that the problem is in the part that, in effect, automatically
preloads nonexistent MediaWiki: pages with the corresponding default
system message when you try to edit them.
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Ilmari Karonen