From ae9e295c64cb784072695d1f5f806d3e0b990856 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Amir Sarabadani <Ladsgroup@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2016 02:22:52 +0330
Subject: [PATCH] Do not normalise external links to special pages

Bug: T147685
Change-Id: I0ec004b3f7194696eaca9541d336b061602e36df
---
 includes/Linker.php | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/includes/Linker.php b/includes/Linker.php
index 9011f177de..d3d1f389af 100644
--- a/includes/Linker.php
+++ b/includes/Linker.php
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ class Linker {
 	 * @return LinkTarget
 	 */
 	public static function normaliseSpecialPage( LinkTarget $target ) {
-		if ( $target->getNamespace() == NS_SPECIAL ) {
+		if ( $target->getNamespace() == NS_SPECIAL && !$target->isExternal() ) {
 			list( $name, $subpage ) = SpecialPageFactory::resolveAlias( $target->getDBkey() );
 			if ( !$name ) {
 				return $target;
-- 
2.20.1