+editwikinames doesn't support MediaWiki

[Caroline Ford]

+editwikinames looks like it only works with MoinMoin wikis. For a MediaWiki wiki the user page is not the Wiki base URL + user name.

For example (I'm a Wikipedian):
Wiki base URL: http://en.wikipedia.org
Username:Secretlondon

Launchpad/people turns this into: http://en.wikipedia.org/Secretlondon which 404s. Wikipedia's page not found script presumes it is in the article namespace and tries http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretlondon which also breaks.
Even entering "http://en.wikipedia.org/User:" as the wiki base URL doesn't work, as Launchpad then goes to "http://en.wikipedia.org/User:/SecretLondon" (the last slash is incorrect).

The correct URL is <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Secretlondon>.

[Guilherme Salgado (salgado)]

The code to handle WikiNames is very simple; all it does is append the Username field to the "Wiki base URL" one when generating the link.

Ideally I think it should detect the type of wiki and do the right thing, but that's not a trivial change. The option you suggested (allowing users to specify the wiki type) may not be feasible if we start supporting other types.

For now, you can use "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/" as the base url and "User:SecretLondon" as the username.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Alternatively, Launchpad could stop recording wiki names at all.

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

Fixing bug 186660 would make this bug irrelevant.

[Brad Crittenden (bac)]

Closing due to bug 186660.