Item14130: genwebnotify.pl does bogus wikiname matching.
Priority: Normal
Current State: Confirmed
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Target Release: n/a
Applies To: Web Site
Component: genwebnotify
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The
GenerateWebNotify page gets it right, but the script then "validates" the names against:
if ( $name =~ /^[A-Z]+[a-z]+[A-Z]/ ) {
and
next unless $_ =~ /^\s*\* ([A-Z]+[a-z]+[A-Z]\w+)\s*$/;
This fails to match international Wikinames, as well as names with numerics. For ex.
Item14126 submitted by
Ehj52N
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GeorgeClark - 09 Aug 2016
Additionally, the script is directly updating the topic txt file. It really ought to be using the API.
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GeorgeClark - 09 Aug 2016