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"w" interwiki on 'br.wikimedia' is linking to 'br.wikipedia'
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Description

Having this page as an example [1], you will see that first two interwiki links with "w" are linking to br.wikipedia. However, br.wikipedia has nothing to do with br.wikimedia. It should be linking to pt.wikipedia.

[1] - https://br.wikimedia.org/wiki/Usu%C3%A1rio:Teles

Regards.


Version: wmf-deployment
Severity: normal
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55733

Details

Reference
bz56207

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 2:39 AM
bzimport set Reference to bz56207.
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Simple workaround: use "pt:" instead. But that doesn't mean this shouldn't be fixed as well.

I wonder if this can be fixed by adding something to [1]?

[1] https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FWikimediaMaintenance.git/4a7a7a972c0b75727c7287c2f884de918dfe5ef6/rebuildInterwiki.php#L113

(In reply to comment #1)

Simple workaround: use "pt:" instead.

Oh wait, that goes to the nonexistent "pt.wikimedia.org". Not so nice.

@Reedy: Do we have a way of adding interwiki overrides to an individual wiki? rebuildInterwiki.php doesn't seem to have any decent way of doing it. The Swedish hack is good at renaming away unwanted interwiki prefixes, but not modifying their target (as needed in this bug) or adding extra interwikis (bug 32189 et al).

Change 94593 had a related patch set uploaded by TTO:
Add language override options for rebuildInterwiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/94593

  • This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 53011 ***

Change 94593 merged by jenkins-bot:
Add language override and extra link support for dumpInterwiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/94593