Last modified: 2014-07-20 10:26:21 UTC
{{fullurl}} only recognizes single interwiki prefixes, so that {{fullurl:w:fr:pomme}} will point to "fr:pomme" on en.wikipedia instead of "pomme" on fr.wikipedia. Since queries are not forwarded, {{fullurl:w:fr:pomme|action=edit}} links to "en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=fr:pomme&action=edit", which redirects to "fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/pomme" (notice the query's disappearance). Ideally, {{fullurl}} should correctly parse consecutive prefixes; alternatively, wikis should forward the query parameters when redirecting to another wiki. This is useful for crosswiki link templates that accept input interwiki links.
Well, the problem here is not that MediaWiki's broken, per se, but that users expect multiple interwiki prefixes to resolve at once; the current behaviour relies upon interwiki redirection.
When MediaWiki redirects interwiki'ly, forwarding the full query string would work. Maybe just tack $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] to the URI?
Well you'd want to parse it a bit, I imagine... don't want to pass on things like the title parameter. :) You also should check whether the dest URL already includes a query string, and append as necessary.
This works now! Yay.
