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Interwiki links to os: (Ossetic) are not recognized
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Description

The Ossetic Wikipedia at http://os.wikipedia.org/ already exists, but MediaWiki
won't recognize any interwiki links to it, using any of the following formats:

  • [[os:]]
  • [[os:Сæйраг фарс]]
  • [[:os:]]
  • [[:os:Сæйраг фарс|Ossetic language edition]]
  • [[:os:Сæйраг фарс]]
  • [[:os:Сæйраг фарс|Ossetic language edition]]

I have tested this on w:en:, w:vi:, and m:.


Version: unspecified
Severity: major
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossetian_language

Details

Reference
bz1688

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to High.Nov 21 2014, 8:16 PM
bzimport set Reference to bz1688.
bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

jeluf wrote:

*** Bug 1690 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

  • Bug 1816 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

brian wrote:

(In reply to comment #0)

The Ossetic Wikipedia at http://os.wikipedia.org/ already exists,

but MediaWiki

won't recognize any interwiki links to it, using any of the

following formats:

  • [[os:]]
  • [[os:Сæйраг фарс]]
  • [[:os:]]
  • [[:os:Сæйраг фарс|Ossetic language edition]]
  • [[:os:Сæйраг фарс]]
  • [[:os:Сæйраг фарс|Ossetic language edition]]

I have tested this on w:en:, w:vi:, and m:.

Two lines of the description are shown below:

  • [[:os:Сæйраг фарс|Ossetic language edition]]
  • [[:os:Сæйраг фарс|Ossetic language edition]]

Only 5 formats were tested, it seems.

(In reply to comment #3)

Two lines of the description are shown below:

  • [[:os:Сæйраг фарс|Ossetic language edition]]
  • [[:os:Сæйраг фарс|Ossetic language edition]]

Only 5 formats were tested, it seems.

Sorry, I meant to put [[:os:|Ossetic language edition]] as the last one. It
still doesn't work, though.

jpbrenna wrote:

There aren't many Ossetians, and there are fewer still who have access to the Internet. Yet
the handful who do have pulled together and created a decent little Wikipedia. They've
translated several English-language articles and tried to provied links to them in Ossetian,
but they aren't working. The bug was reported a month ago, yet no progress has been made.
This isn't a "normal" problem, it's pretty major. If I knew what to do, I'd fix it. But I
can't. Someone who can should do so ASAP. It may be a small thing to most English speakers,
but to the Ossetians it is probably a huge deal (are their article contributions even being
recognized and ranked?).

Added. Purge cache of pages as needed.

(In reply to comment #6)

Added. Purge cache of pages as needed.

I'm still seeing the problem over at Meta. The [[m:Wikimedia News]] page has
several links to os:, and they all have to use the external link format, because
the interwiki link is still broken. I have tried purging already.

Reopening.

amikeco wrote:

I see it's beeing fixed at the Meta now. Thanks to all who helped.