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BUG MIGRATED FROM SOURCEFORGE
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=879509&group_id=34373&atid=411192
Originally submitted by Nobody/Anonymous - nobody  2004-01-19 00:09


Article titles get truncated to 255 characters.

On the test wikipedia, I created [[TestA]] 
(contents: "This is '''TestA'''. I will create [[TestB]].") 
and [[TestB]] (contents: "This is '''TestB'''. I created 
[[TestA]]."), then moved both [[TestA]] and then 
[[TestB]] to [[123456789 123456789 123456789 
123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 
123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 
123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 
123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 
123456789 123456789 123456]]. The final 6 was 
truncated from the resulting article title, leaving a 
broken redirect to the full title from [[TestA]] and 
[[TestB]]. The article at [[123...345]] is the previous 
[[TestA]]. The previous [[TestB]] appears to be gone.

I prefer not to perform the experiment on a real 
wikipedia, and I don't have sysop access on the test 
wikipedia, so I haven't been able to try 
deleting/restoring it, to see if the contents or history of 
[[TestB]] survived somehow.

[[User:Cyp| ''Cyp'']] 23:07, 18 Jan 2004 (UTC)

------------------------- Additional comments ------------------------
Date: 2004-03-15 16:49
Sender: SF user hashar

Related to bug 855544 (long page name)  
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?
func=detail&atid=411192&aid=855544&group_id=34373

Software should not allow a title to be changed to a title that 
don't fit in the database. Code is already patched when 
creating a new page, need to be implemented when moving 
page now :0)