Last modified: 2005-12-01 07:54:04 UTC
the link [[de:MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning]] should take you to http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning but actually takes you to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/de:MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning the same is true of links that start en: e.g. [[en:MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning]] takes you to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning not http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning This also happens with other projects eg. commons: wiktionary: Sometimes when you acutally view the wrong urls the actualyl take you to the right place, but not always.
(In reply to comment #0) > the link [[de:MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning]] should take you to > http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning > but actually takes you to > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/de:MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning This is normal behaviour because http://en.wikipedia.org/ is a "gateway". The result / the displayed page WORKSFORME. regards reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]
Indeed, I think this is intended behaviour - it eliminates the need to synchronise the interwiki details wherever they're used whenever a new wiki is set up; indeed, in this case, it eliminates the need for the custom "MediaZilla" code to know anything about interwiki syntax at all, because it can just substitute onto an en.wikipedia URL and let MediaWiki figure the rest out. I believe it also underlies to some extent the complex logic of things like [[w:Foo]], [[w:en:Foo]], [[w:fr:Foo]], etc. If you can give some examples where it *doesn't* work, they may indicate a bug in MediaWiki itself, or in its configuration. [BTW, it's also nifty for using bookmark keywords - I have "wg" set as a keyword for "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s" in Mozilla, and can type things like "wg meta:multimedia" and get to the appropriate page, although the redirection can sometimes be slow under heavy server load...]
(In reply to comment #0)rning > Sometimes when you acutally view the wrong urls the actualyl take you to the > right place, but not always. If this is the case, please provide examples...?
Of course when I come to test it everything works hunky dory! Thinking on this and reading the last paragraph of comment #2 I'm guessing that most/all of the failures have been at times of very high server load on en and/or the target wiki.
