Last modified: 2005-11-15 08:04:58 UTC
There's a problem at Wikimedia Commons with linking to Wikipedia articles with Unicode characters. For example, a link to [[w:pl:Stanis%C5%82aw Lem]] links to [[w:pl:Stanis]] instead. External links like [pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Lem Stanis%C5%82aw Lem]] can of course be used, but it'd be better if they were no-arrow interwiki links.
*** Bug 645 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
From duplicate bug 645: Dear friends, at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gangleri/remarks the first remark named "link to [[w:ro:Discuţie Utilizator:Gangleri]] ~ [[w:ro:User_talk:Gangleri]]" ilustrates that some special characters as "ţ" cause problems in InterWiki links. If this issue is already known please let me know where to read about such "exceptions". It maight be somehow related to http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579 too because it shows the same effect. Best regards Reinhardt
Looks like a problem with the way the redirect is handled through en.wikipedia.org.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2004 has a link "[[Juraj Beneš]]" which displays correctly on that page as "Juraj Beneš" links incorrectly to "Juraj BeneÅ¡" ("Juraj_Bene%C5%A1").
I made a central place [[Wikipedia:Invalid article names]] in [[:Category:Wikipedia maintenance]] where such broken links can be listed. This is an equivalent to [[Wikipedia:Duplicate articles]]. I know some others. I suppose they have been created with previous versions of WikiMedia software. Regards Reinhardt
Notes: some weeks ago I made some remarks at [[meta:User:Gangleri/remarks#Invalid_links_.28lists.29|meta:User:Gangleri/rema rks#Invalid links (lists)]]. You may read some other related sections as well. The problem is both the existence of pages which do not complay wit UTF-8 (?) and the usage of such links in en.wikipedia and directed to en.wikipedia from other projects. It should be much easyer to verify the namespace then using a bot to scan for such links inside the articles, talks, categories ... . Regards ~~~~ (Reinhardt)
Dear friends, you will find two sort of links: a) [[:ro:Discuţie Utilizator:Gangleri]], [[:ja:メインページ]], [[:bg:Потребител :Gangleri|bg]], [[:he:משתמש:Gangleri|he]], [[:ja:利用者:Gangleri|ja]] b) [[w:ro:Discuţie Utilizator:Gangleri]], [[w:ja:メインページ]], [[w:bg:Потребител ;:Gangleri|bg]], [[w:he:משתמש:Gangleri|he]], [[w:ja:利用者:Gangleri|ja]] Both work at en.wikipedia.org. ONLY a) work at xx.wikipedia.org, meta.wikimedia.org ... Regards Reinhardt
Dear friends, a) Do we need a seccond test environment? b) Should InterWiki translation should be be fixed in 1.4-cvs? http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Gangleri/tests#Unicode_ISO_8859-1 shows that we are testing on an Unicode environment. This means that issues related to InterWiki translations trough en.wikipedia CAN NOT BE TESTED HERE. My proposal: Please make an testutf8.wikipedia.org environment and make the translations from [[test:]] to [[xx:]] as [[:fr:]], [[:pl:]], [[:ro:]], [[:ru:]], [[:he:]], [[:ja:]], [[:bg:]] ... trough testutf8.wikipedia.org because problems regarding translations to those targets (except [[:fr:]]?) are known. There are a lot of bugs which can be included then: - bug 563, - translations related to the anchor part of a link, where the anchor contains special characters as (, ), ", ', Unicode characters and so on. - ??? Regards Reinhardt
I was thinking on this again. It seems that three test environments are needed in order to fix this / to emulate all combinations of final translations: B through which translations are made; A and C in order to test: - A translated trough B to C - C translated trough B to A - A translated trough B to B - C translated trough B to C - B translated to A - B translated to C If B will be a UTF-8 environment as it is now in 1.3.7. B should be an UTF- 8 too. Regards Reinhardt
(In reply to comment #3) > Looks like a problem with the way the redirect is handled through en.wikipedia.org. When testing a few variants of interwiki links you can see that: : [[w:pl:Stanis%C5%82aw Lem]] and [[:en:pl:Stanis%C5%82aw Lem]] does not work. : but [[:pl:Stanis%C5%82aw Lem]] and [[de:pl:Stanis%C5%82aw Lem]] does. Obviously the first (or only) prefix determines how the name is interpreted. If it is a language prefix for a UTF8 based wiki it works since the name is valid for that wiki, if it is a a prefix for a Latin-1 based wiki, the name is not valid for that wiki and is instead cut of at the invalid character and hence a broken link. To correct this, the normalization of names must be based on the last (or only) language prefix, not the first. Best regards, Kjell ANDRÉ
Now that bug 65 is fixed this was pretty easy to add on top. Checked in and put live.
