From 71c9164843c89b85328fd2cff7c9671fb5b43421 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Antoine Musso <hashar@users.mediawiki.org>
Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 16:50:14 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix for r22450: handle links to special pages when using
 Linker::makeLink();

---
 includes/Linker.php | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/includes/Linker.php b/includes/Linker.php
index 1f3494b5bb..75fd64c976 100644
--- a/includes/Linker.php
+++ b/includes/Linker.php
@@ -218,6 +218,20 @@ class Linker {
 			$retVal = $this->makeKnownLinkObj( $nt, $text, $query, $trail, $prefix );
 		} else {
 			wfProfileIn( $fname.'-immediate' );
+
+			# Handles links to special pages wich do not exist in the database:
+			if( $nt->getNamespace() == NS_SPECIAL ) {
+				if( SpecialPage::exists( $nt->getDbKey() ) ) {
+					$retVal = $this->makeKnownLinkObj( $nt, $text, $query, $trail, $prefix );
+				} else {
+					$retVal = $this->makeBrokenLinkObj( $nt, $text, $query, $trail, $prefix );
+				}
+				wfProfileOut( $fname.'-immediate' );
+				wfProfileOut( $fname );
+print "returning $retVal;";
+				return $retVal;
+			}
+
 			# Work out link colour immediately
 			$aid = $nt->getArticleID() ;
 			if ( 0 == $aid ) {
-- 
2.20.1