#369 Bad links in wikiversity

[echo0]

In the http_server or gui version for example (it's the same for any lesson) when browsing to
fr.wikiversity.org/wiki/Règles_et_rudiments_du_jeu_d’échecs
you can notice the link on the right are red the generated links are wrong I don't know if the problem is specific with the french version only please make a test with en.wikiversity.org (sorry for me low memory and low bandwidth for the moment).

When you manually type a good url and for exemple browse to
fr.wikiversity.org/wiki/Règles_et_rudiments_du_jeu_d’échecs/Introduction
you can also notice that the bottom links (previous an next lessons) are wrong too (red display)

xowa is started with the command line :
java -Xmx256m -jar /xowa/xowa_linux.jar --app_mode http_server
or
java -Xmx256m -jar /xowa/xowa_linux.jar --app_mode gui
the version used is the latest 2.4.2.1

[echo0]

wikiversity was installed using the file Xowa_frbundle_2014-08-15.7z

[gnosygnu]

Thanks for the detailed report. No worries about testing only en.wikiversity.org. All you need to do is cite one page: it's up to me to explain why! Also, you don't need to cite command-line args, version number and bundle. Your ticket descriptions are great, and I'd rather you save yourself some typing. :)

First, as a matter of background, the redlinks mean that the page does not exist on the wiki. The gui identifies correctly which pages do and do not exist. The http_server assumes everything exists.

This is a limitation of the http_server. The gui identifies the redlinks in a background thread and then updates the page. Unfortunately, this approach is not possible through the http_server. I think there are three approaches:

• Have the server wait until XOWA gets redlink data for everything
  • This approach is problematic in that pages will take longer to serve (XOWA has to check every link to see if it exists)
• Generate an HTML dump for the wiki that has redlink data
  • This approach is problematic in that it doesn't yet exist (it will as I get Android done in the next month or two)
• Build an asynchronous AJAX client on the client side and have it poll the server
  • This approach is best, but it requires some significant coding on my side.

Let me know how important the redlinks are. I may be able to add #1 as an option, and do some exploratory work on #3.

[Anonymous]

The problem is that links on the lessons are BAD. I don't care if they are red or not in the http_server, I'd like to have the correct links generated in the lessons pages.

If you go to
http://localhost:8080/fr.wikiversity.org/wiki/R%C3%A8gles_et_rudiments_du_jeu_d%E2%80%99%C3%A9checs
and click on
Chap. 1 : Introduction
then it redirects you to
http://localhost:8080/fr.wikiversity.org/wiki//Introduction
which says Page not found

so links in wikiversity are not working that's the point of my ticket, because wikiversity is not usable

[Anonymous]

please move the ticket to v2.4.* again

[gnosygnu]

Ah, sorry. My mistake. I thought this was about redlinks.

Yes, those links are wrong. They use relative paths ([[/A]]) which I broke recently in v2.4.1. This has been fixed for v2.4.3 (another user reported the issue this week)

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Ok I didn't search for another ticket about this before opening it. Thanks.

[gnosygnu]

Sorry: I didn't say. The other user reported it to me via email.

Please don't bother searching tickets to see if they're already reported. The volume of ticks is so low, I'd rather have people open up redundant tickets, than no tickets at all. I really do appreciate the time that users take to report an issue, and it takes me little time to answer them.

Thanks!