Last modified: 2014-07-25 11:32:11 UTC
When importing Wikipedia:Attribution to English Wikibooks with the namespace selector to "(all)" the import goes to the mainspace with no pseudo-namespace even (it is just "Attribution", not even "Wikipedia:Attribution"). This would be bug 15387. However the link upon "successful" import links to [[wikipedia:Attribution]], which is an interwiki link to [[Attribution]] (on English Wikipedia) - not to what was actually imported to Wikibooks. The link should point to wherever the content actually went.
It goes back to the problem of being unable to have a namespace and interwiki prefix of the same name :) If you type [[Wikipedia:Attribution]] into Wikibooks, it doesn't know whether you want to go to the IW url (which it assumes is the case, and follows it) or a local title of the same name. For kicks, it might be entertaining to try and make a namespace the same as an IW prefix to see how they barf while coexisting...
(In reply to comment #1) [...] > For kicks, it might be entertaining to try and make a namespace the same as an > IW prefix to see how they barf while coexisting... > I did that when first setting up my localhost wiki. It wasn't pretty. I don't know whether it's worth looking at "fixing" that kind of stuff, since that's an ill-advised thing to do anyways. Might be considered a misconfiguration rather than a software bug.
(In reply to comment #2) > (In reply to comment #1) > [...] > > For kicks, it might be entertaining to try and make a namespace the same as an > > IW prefix to see how they barf while coexisting... > > > > I did that when first setting up my localhost wiki. It wasn't pretty. I don't > know whether it's worth looking at "fixing" that kind of stuff, since that's an > ill-advised thing to do anyways. Might be considered a misconfiguration rather > than a software bug. > I'd be inclined to call it a misc configuration too. If you have two identical namespaces, the software could not be expected to know which one you're referring to. Case in point: Wikipedia:Attribution. Now, is the Wikipedia: a local namespace or an interwiki prefix? The software can't know :) Perhaps making it default local (if exists) then go to the IW url, but I'm not even sure that's worth fixing either.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 11344 ***
