Make [[Special:WhatLinksHere]] and [[Special:RecentChangesLinked]] work with links which use [[Special:MyLanguage]]
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	He7d3r
	Feb 19 2014, 5:31 PM

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From T36098#392361:

(In reply to comment #11)

The preferred way to link to translatable pages is not to link directly to the
page anyway but to use Special:MyLanguage.

Which causes [[Special:WhatLinksHere]] not to show it. Is this already
tracked?

As internal links are not registered, Special:RecentChangesLinked is also made useless for all translatable pages.

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Reference: bz61547

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Mentioned Here: T36098: Make the page title optionally translatable when using the Translate extension

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 3:05 AM

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He7d3r created this task.Feb 19 2014, 5:31 PM

There isn't any obvious way to solve this at this moment. Needs some thinking.

Nikerabbit edited projects, added MediaWiki-General, I18n; removed MediaWiki-extensions-Translate.Jan 28 2015, 5:53 AM

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Nikerabbit merged a task: T114058: Allow to track links via Special:MyLanguage/ somehow.Oct 1 2015, 7:29 AM

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He7d3r renamed this task from [[Special:WhatLinksHere]] doesn't list links which use [[Special:MyLanguage]] to Make [[Special:WhatLinksHere]] and [[Special:RecentChangesLinked]] work with links which use [[Special:MyLanguage]].Dec 4 2015, 7:09 AM

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jhsoby merged a task: T178964: Links via [[Special:MyLanguage]] aren't listed on [[Special:WhatLinksHere]].Oct 25 2017, 8:31 AM

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At least the link with Special:MyLanguage/ should be registered at its base page name (everything after the / in that prefix), because it is the source of translations, which should exist, independently of the number of subpages for language codes (which will vary constantly over time).
As well translated subpages will most often have a navbox linking to all other languages, either from a template (this links are registered), or the list autogenerated by <language/> (these links are also not registered).

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