On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw(a)home.nl> wrote:
The API can be used to view such 'invisible'
pages, yes, although it
wouldn't be trivial: you'd have to know (or guess) one of the following
things:
* a user who edited the page
* a non-restricted page that is linked from the page
* a non-restricted page or template that is transcluded by the page
* a non-restricted image that is used on the page
* a category that the page is in
You can't look things up using numeric namespace keys?
Also, Special:Recentchanges will probably show changes
to these
restricted pages (at least list=recentchanges will).
Right, of course. I wonder what happens if you call getPrefixedText()
on a Title whose namespace id isn't recognized. Quite possibly a
crash.
Anyway, short answer: don't do it, it almost certainly won't work.