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Bug 15918 - Import may link to the wrong location
Import may link to the wrong location
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 11344
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Export/Import (Other open bugs)
unspecified
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: Low minor (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2008-10-09 16:05 UTC by Mike.lifeguard
Modified: 2014-07-25 11:32 UTC (History)
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Description Mike.lifeguard 2008-10-09 16:05:40 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.
Comment 1 Chad H. 2008-10-09 19:28:56 UTC 
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...
Comment 2 Mike.lifeguard 2008-10-09 19:53:14 UTC 
(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.
Comment 3 Chad H. 2008-10-14 12:32:40 UTC 
(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.
Comment 4 This, that and the other (TTO) 2014-07-25 11:32:11 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 11344 ***
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