From dd943ff69c3bf4ab5215437641ba282a7f5e4ac4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Starling <tstarling@users.mediawiki.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 14:39:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Patch to formatComment() to fix otherwise-unrecognised links
 with an initial colon, written by Kate-

---
 includes/Skin.php | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/includes/Skin.php b/includes/Skin.php
index dc697349a3..6ea3cb7d01 100644
--- a/includes/Skin.php
+++ b/includes/Skin.php
@@ -2543,6 +2543,8 @@ class Skin {
 					$trail = "";
 				}
 				$linkRegexp = '/\[\[(.*?)\]\]' . preg_quote( $trail, '/' ) . '/';
+				if ($match[1][0] == ':')
+					$match[1] = substr($match[1], 1);
 				$thelink = $this->makeLink( $match[1], $text, "", $trail );
 			}
 			$comment = preg_replace( $linkRegexp, $thelink, $comment, 1 );
-- 
2.20.1