On http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=sitematrix (same on every other wiki) contains an invalid url syntax at two entries:
<special url="office.wikimedia.org" code="office" private="" />
<special url="test.wikipedia.org" code="test" />
The scheme (http) and the colon is missing, the scheme-specific-part is ok.
Version: unspecified
Severity: major
URL: http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=sitematrix
This is intended. We're currently testing dropping the schema for introduction of an https site.
No, this is not correct. Per Roan's e-mails on the subject: info output from the API should be fully-qualified.
The new expandUrl functionality should take care of this (or otherwise it will allow an easy fix for it)
The problem why i reported this bug is, that this causes parse errors if a bot framework expectes a valid url. According to RFC 1738 a scheme is always needed.
The only solution would be to return the same protocol as used for the http(s) request.
(In reply to comment #10)
Will hopefully be fixed with r94369, which I will deploy on Monday.
Yup, that did it. Closing as FIXED.