Make Wikicode.matches() handle namespaces. #335
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| If either side has any colons, everything before the last colon is taken to be | ||
| a namespace and/or interwiki prefix. The parts before and after the colon are | ||
| normalized and compared separately; both must match for the result to be True. |
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This does not make sense - if something is not a valid namespace/interwiki prefix, it should not be normalized.
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OK, I've just spent some time reading https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Page_title and have come to the realization that this (as with so many things about MediaWiki) is way more complicated than I originally thought. So, one possibility would be to have matches() optionally accept something like a |
Wikicode.matches() currently does not handle page names with namespaces and/or interwiki links. This makes them do so.
Fixes #302.