Last modified: 2012-04-16 09:15:42 UTC
MediaWiki (of the latest version?) automatically convert " "(half-width space) to " "(full-width space) in the input box (including search) and direct URL input and so on. e.g. http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%E3%80%80Sharp => http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp This is useful sometimes, but also causes many bugs. Case 1 "section link in edit summary": (not so critcal) When there's followng two section: == foo bar == This is half-width section. == foo bar == This is full-width section. and input /* foo bar */ (for full-width section) in edit summary, the link in the summary was auto-converted so it misunderstands that the link target is section "foo bar"(half-width). Case 2 "user's name": (critical) If the useaname contains " "(full-width space), his/her name is also converted automatically in many case. So user contributions page ([[Special:Contributions]]) or other page doesn't work well in this case. For example, [[User:大野 一将]]@jawiki uses full-width space as the separator between his first and last (you can make sure in his userpage's history [1]). But now his name is auto-converted to [[User:大野 一将]](the separator is half-width), therefore his contributuins can't view ; [[Special:Contributions/大野 一将]] (full-width) [2] is converted to [[Special:Contributions/大野 一将]] (half-width) [3]. Maybe because of the same reason, in his userpage [4] the link to his contributuion in toolbox doesn't show. And more cases are reported on jawiki's bug report page [[:w:ja:Wikipedia:バグの報告]][5]. I thinks the auto-converting should be disabled while this bug still exists, at least in Japanese. thanks. [1] http://ja.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E5%88%A9%E7%94%A8%E8%80%85:%E5%A4%A7%E9%87%8E_%E4%B8%80%E5%B0%86&action=history [2] http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/%E5%A4%A7%E9%87%8E%E3%80%80%E4%B8%80%E5%B0%86 [3] http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/%E5%A4%A7%E9%87%8E_%E4%B8%80%E5%B0%86 [4] http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%88%A9%E7%94%A8%E8%80%85:%E5%A4%A7%E9%87%8E_%E4%B8%80%E5%B0%86 [5] http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:BUG
*** Bug 25409 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***