752133 - confusing buggy duplicate breadcrumb trail for subpages in gmo skin

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Websites :: wiki.mozilla.org, defect)

Description

[skierpage]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120423 Firefox/12.0 SeaMonkey/2.9
Build ID: 20120423002905

Steps to reproduce:

w.m.o makes heavy use of subpages, e.g. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Program_Management/Programs/Apps/Site_Compatibility?useskin=gmo

When you view a subpage, if its parent pages exist, MediaWiki generates a breadcrumb trail for them:
  < Program Management | Programs | Apps


Actual results:

For some reason the gmo skin (w.m.o's default, changeable in your wiki preferences) adds its own breadcrumb trail:
 Home » Program_Management » Programs » Apps » Site_Compatibility?useskin=gmo

This is redundant and confusing, and there are now three breadcrumb trails: the title with slashes, the parent links with pipes, and the gmo skin with guillemets.

Furthermore, there are bugs with the gmo additional breadcrumb:
* the query string appears in the breadcrumb;
* it leaves page names like "Site_Compatibility" with underscores in them;
* if a parent page doesn't exist, the skin still creates a link to it, e.g. "no_page" in https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Skierpage/no_page/subsubpage?useskin=gmo ;
* there's no reason to include a link to the current page;
* there's no benefit prepending a link to Home , there's already a huge MozillaWiki link target at the top of the page.


Expected results:

Eliminate this breadcrumb, it's noise.

Comment 1

[Christie Koehler [:ckoehler]]

Due to limited resources, we're not addressing non-critical issues on deprecated themes. Closing as WONTFIX. Please re-open with additional info if you feel this is a critical bug.