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Bug 25110 - Search terms like wiki:xxx links to external site

Summary:	Search terms like wiki:xxx links to external site

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME Product: Wikimedia Classification: Unclassified Component: General/Unknown (Other open bugs) Version: unspecified Hardware: All All Importance: Low minor (vote) Target Milestone: --- Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this! URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Whiteboard: Keywords: Depends on: Blocks:   Show dependency tree / graph		Reported: 2010-09-09 09:29 UTC by andrewgfry Modified: 2012-08-23 17:45 UTC (History) CC List: 1 user (show) federicoleva See Also: Web browser: --- Mobile Platform: --- Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---

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Description andrewgfry 2010-09-09 09:29:52 UTC Any search (on the EN wiki main page) that start wiki: (note the colon) direct to the external site http://c2.com/cgi/ Eg. Search for "wiki:reference" directs to "http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?reference" Comment 1 Nemo 2012-08-23 17:45:45 UTC This is correct, see [[Special:Interwiki]] for the list of interwikis. wiki: is one of them since the beginning of time and won't be removed in default MediaWiki nor in our [[m:Interwiki map]].