Last modified: 2014-01-29 14:15:42 UTC
Coming at the problems described in bug 9040 and bug 24289 with an easy to implement fix that hopefully resolves the underlying use-cases... Users often put language codes into URLs to switch between languages. This always works _from_ English Wikipedia, as it uses canonical names in the URL. If there are non-canonical names in the URL, converting them from the host wiki's language into canonical names *before* being redirected to a different wiki will allow the interwiki-target-wiki to understand the URL irrespective of its language. i.e. currently: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Watchlist redirects to https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Beobachtungsliste and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/de:Special:Watchlist redirects to https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Beobachtungsliste \o/ However, https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Spezial:Beobachtungsliste redirects to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Beobachtungsliste which is not helpful. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Spezial:Beobachtungsliste should redirect to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Watchlist https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/fr:Spezial:Beobachtungsliste should (on the host wiki) be converted to https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/fr:Special:Watchlist which would then redirect to https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Watchlist which the fr.wp wiki would then redirect me to https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spécial:Liste_de_suivi In addition to special pages, it would be very helpful if the same can be done for the page name messages mainpage, but a few others may also be worth doing at the same time (e.g. helppage, randompage-url) There is a regular flow of users hitting this problem, and creating soft redirects to fix the problem. Please see these discussions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2014_January_14#Spezial:Beobachtungsliste https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2014_January_28#Pennfolenn.2FPenfolen
