Last modified: 2012-07-09 22:24:40 UTC
Until recently, the syntax "[[wikipedia:Foo]]" on wikimediafoundation.org would render a link target similar to <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo>. Now, "Wikipedia:" is apparently considered a namespace alias of wikimediafoundation.org's "Project" namespace. Consequently, "[[wikipedia:Foo]]" now leads to <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Foo>. This behavior is wrong and needs to be fixed. Example page that currently shows the wrong behavior: <https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia:Sandbox&oldid=82691>.
(In reply to comment #0) > Until recently How recently? See the commit log at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaMaintenance.git;a=log
(In reply to comment #1) > (In reply to comment #0) >> Until recently > > How recently? In the last few days, I guess. I believe this change by Reedy is to blame: <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=operations/mediawiki-config.git;a=blobdiff;f=wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php;h=05036b6ae9a8e3c0a31ee3def194a397101ba175;hp=5fd99ba0c34f6da16b83234ae25b842cb04effcd;hb=4ab25b404790e7bc5f895be09087472e9256e38d;hpb=47234b4efbf8bfc611147eb9f95c63ba85a0cd69>. Specifically: --- - 'wikipedia' => array( 'Wikipedia' => NS_PROJECT ), + 'wiki' => array( 'Wikipedia' => NS_PROJECT ), ---
I daren't even ask why we've got usages of 'wiki' and 'wikipedia' in the config. I'll revert that line in a little while..
Reverted
(In reply to comment #4) > Reverted Thanks for the quick response. :-) Reedy also ran refreshLinks.php on foundationwiki to fix up some of the breakage. I consider this bug fixed ("[[wikipedia:Foo]]" now works as it did previously). There's likely a separate bug to be had about wiki/wikipedia strangeness in the Wikimedia configuration files, but someone else can deal with that.
