Wikimedia
MediaWiki API: Make action=checktoken give a warning if token ends in " \" (e.g. Url encoding mistake)
The popular wiki platform MediaWiki has a web service API which is used by various software tools, including automated "bots", to interact with a wiki programmatically.
This task involves modifying ApiCheckToken.php in the mediawiki/core repository to return a helpful warning when the token ends with urldecode(Token:SUFFIX). Read https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit for more details on submitting your code and the review process.
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Yurii Shnitkovskyi
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