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Bug 26837 - a specific search string leads to a page outside wikipedia
a specific search string leads to a page outside wikipedia
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Product: Wikimedia
Classification: Unclassified
Interwiki links (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
http://www.wikipedia.org/
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Reported: 2011-01-21 11:52 UTC by Chris Scott
Modified: 2011-01-21 13:14 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Chris Scott 2011-01-21 11:52:19 UTC
On page:
  http://www.wikipedia.org/
enter the following search string:
  wiki:x
and you will be taken to a page outside wikipedia:
  http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?x
belonging to the company:
  Cunningham & Cunningham, Inc.
"a small consultancy that has specialized in object-oriented programming"

This appears to happen regardless of the language chosen (I tried for English, Portuguese, French, German).

Very strange!
Comment 1 p858snake 2011-01-21 12:01:01 UTC
wiki: is a interwiki link. For the complete list of active interwiki links on MWF projects, you can look at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Interwiki_map
Comment 2 Liangent 2011-01-21 12:01:18 UTC
[[m:Interwiki map]]
Comment 3 Chris Scott 2011-01-21 13:11:36 UTC
The page:
  http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Interwiki_map
states:
  "Remember to specify why the prefix would be useful on a significant number of pages on Wikimedia Foundation projects."

Why is this prefix considered 'useful'?

It is not clear why such a 'significant' prefix is allocated to a company whose site does nothing when the prefix is used.

Surely it would be reasonable, as a condition for the granting of a prefix, to require that the site to which the prefix points ALWAYS provides a meaningful message when it is (probably inadvertently) used, and when there is no other meaningful content to return.

The message could be something like:

"You have activated a Wikimedia prefix for a site which has nothing useful to return for your search request. For further information see: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Interwiki_map"
Comment 4 Chad H. 2011-01-21 13:14:28 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> Why is this prefix considered 'useful'?
> 
> It is not clear why such a 'significant' prefix is allocated to a company whose
> site does nothing when the prefix is used.
> 

It's a really really old prefix. That wiki it links to is Ward Cunningham's wiki.

If we created it now, we probably wouldn't use that prefix, you're right.

But changing the prefix now would probably break a lot of links.

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