From e15cb2b9dbc3effbf6bf9f4f3aeef5e1bcbc3816 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Wolff <bawolff@users.mediawiki.org>
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 18:46:01 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Follow-up r86534 - Do not add tracking categories if we're
 looking at a special page.

Thank you Nikerabbit for suggesting how to fix.
---
 RELEASE-NOTES-1.18         | 1 +
 includes/parser/Parser.php | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.18 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.18
index abda92c569..04fa698a54 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.18
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.18
@@ -438,6 +438,7 @@ production.
   Windows servers.
 * (bug 30074) Moving user JS subpages resulted in JS errors because
   #REDIRECT [[Foo]] is invalid JS
+* Tracking categories are no longer shown in footer for special pages
 
 === API changes in 1.18 ===
 * BREAKING CHANGE: action=watch now requires POST and token.
diff --git a/includes/parser/Parser.php b/includes/parser/Parser.php
index 1c96fc4007..3233fbf6b7 100644
--- a/includes/parser/Parser.php
+++ b/includes/parser/Parser.php
@@ -3956,6 +3956,10 @@ class Parser {
 	 * @return Boolean: whether the addition was successful
 	 */
 	protected function addTrackingCategory( $msg ) {
+		if ( $this->mTitle->getNamespace() === NS_SPECIAL ) {
+			wfDebug( __METHOD__.": Not adding tracking category $msg to special page!\n" );
+			return false;
+		}
 		$cat = wfMsgForContent( $msg );
 
 		# Allow tracking categories to be disabled by setting them to "-"
-- 
2.20.1