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Bug 22042 - add mw: prefix at commons:
add mw: prefix at commons:
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Product: Wikimedia
Classification: Unclassified
Interwiki links (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Normal enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2010-01-07 15:26 UTC by lɛʁi לערי ריינהארט
Modified: 2011-02-08 21:56 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description lɛʁi לערי ריינהארט 2010-01-07 15:26:33 UTC
Dear friends;

mw: is a valid interwiki prefix at meta: . Many MediaWiki installations are using interwiki prefixes to commons: ; some to wikipedia: , and a few to meta: .

Adding the mw: interwiki prefix to commons: would allow interproject linking without the need to change the local interwiki table at many installations.

Today [[meta:mw:Extension:SpecialInterwiki]] and [[m:mw:Extension:SpecialInterwiki]] are useful links.

In the future one could use links as
[[commons:mw:Extension:SpecialInterwiki]] which fails today similar as links via wikipedi:[[mw:Extension:SpecialInterwiki]] are failing.

Thanks in advance! Best regards Reinhardt [[user:Gangleri]]
Comment 1 Platonides 2010-01-07 15:34:56 UTC
There are two different issues here:

If you want mw: to be used from Wikimedia projects, it should be added to Wikimedia interwiki table (seems to be already there, even for commons).

If you want foreign wikis to link to mediawiki.org, it should be added to the provided default interwikis (as [[mediawiki: ]] perhaps?)
Comment 2 Chad H. 2010-01-07 15:37:43 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> There are two different issues here:
> 
> If you want mw: to be used from Wikimedia projects, it should be added to
> Wikimedia interwiki table (seems to be already there, even for commons).
> 

This is what he seems to be asking for.


> If you want foreign wikis to link to mediawiki.org, it should be added to the
> provided default interwikis (as [[mediawiki: ]] perhaps?)
> 

We do provide it by default as 'mediawikiwiki.' Using 'mediawiki' would conflict with the Mediawiki: namespace.
Comment 3 lɛʁi לערי ריינהארט 2010-01-07 15:41:40 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> Today [[meta:mw:Extension:SpecialInterwiki]] and
> [[m:mw:Extension:SpecialInterwiki]] are useful links.
This will not work here.

Trying [[mw:Extension:SpecialInterwiki]] ...
Comment 4 lɛʁi לערי ריינהארט 2010-01-07 15:49:35 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> ...
> Trying [[mw:Extension:SpecialInterwiki]] ...
This will not work here.

(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > There are two different issues here:
> > 
> > If you want mw: to be used from Wikimedia projects, it should be added to
> > Wikimedia interwiki table (seems to be already there, even for commons).
> > 
> 
> This is what he seems to be asking for.

Exactly! It is a very useful first step.

Adding a interwiki prefix to the default interwiki table is a very good idea but was not requested in this enhancement request.




Comment 5 lɛʁi לערי ריינהארט 2010-01-07 15:51:33 UTC
PS: It seems that there will be no conflict with pages starting wit mw [[commons:special:PrefixIndex/mw]].
Comment 6 Platonides 2010-01-07 15:54:48 UTC
It is not redirecting, but links on meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Meta:Sandbox&oldid=1795141
Bugzilla uses a different interwiking...
Comment 7 lɛʁi לערי ריינהארט 2010-01-07 18:41:03 UTC
two issues:
a) http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:MediaWiki_links&action=edit shows that mw: is a valid interwiki link at meta:

b) while some interwiki prefixes can be used in combination ( thgey can be cascaded) mw: can not be used as a second interwiki prefix. I appologize about this detail. It seems to be another enhancement request.

In order to understand the background of this request please take a look at some interwiki linking at
http://wikieducator.org/Talk:Language_Installations#interwiki_linking_at_WikiEducator

I tried to use an interwiki prefix chain also at http://www.librarything.com/ but it seems that there is no chance.
Comment 8 Bawolff (Brian Wolff) 2011-01-01 20:51:07 UTC
Marking this worksforme. mw is a (non-local) interwiki on commons.

Making mw: a local interwiki (so it will work in interwiki "chains") is bug 22407
Comment 9 Krinkle 2011-01-01 20:57:38 UTC
You can place the following on any WMF wiki page (be in Wikipedia, Meta or Commons)

[[mw:Test]]

and it will work, today.

However it wont work via the URL address or in chains like [[meta:w:de:mw:Test]] (which is quite useless since there is only 1 "mw", no need for chaining).

There's a bug already under id bug 22407 which requests to make "mw" a local iw prefix, so that's it's chainable and usable in the url (like [[meta:w:de:mw:Test]]).

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