639114 - Please add a Wikipedia prefix to the interwiki table for the Mozilla Wiki

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Websites :: wiki.mozilla.org, enhancement)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110218 AskTbGOM2/3.9.1.14019 Firefox/3.6.14 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729) SearchToolbar/1.2
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It is inconvenient for many users like https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=User:Alterego&redirect=no to use the wikipedia prefix to indicate that a Wikipedia page and find out that the interwiki system does not work the same here on this wiki. When users want to link to http://en.wikipedia.org as a reference they can more easily do it through invoking the interwiki table with [[wikipedia:foo]] where foo can be any page on Wikipedia.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to any page on the Mozilla Wiki.
2. Open the edit menu.
3. Add a string like [[wikipedia:foo]] where foo could be any page on http://en.wikipedia.org
4. Preview the results.
Actual Results:  
Produces a redlink on the page, which connects when the user clicks on it to https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Wikipedia:foo&action=edit&redlink=1

Expected Results:  
Produces a blue link, which connects when the user clicks on it to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo or http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Foo

Comment 1

[skierpage]

Agreed. See also bug 770076 to support an [[MDN:]] prefix.  I think https://wiki.mozilla.org/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=interwikimap  lists the available interwiki prefixes, and the only one is the obsolete MDC: terminology.

Comment 2

[Alison Wheeler [:AlisonW]]

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Interwiki details the 'how to', with https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Interwiki_linking giving some examples. 

*However*

Using standard interwiki links makes a page specific to the wiki the link appears on (ie wiki.m.o) and would fail were the page to be copied to a different wiki (eg an internal one). An alternative would be to use a template structure instead, eg instead of
  [[w:Mozilla]] (for the page 'Mozilla' on Wikipedia)
use
  {{link|w|Mozilla}}
with that template producing the expanded link.

Feedback comments please.

Comment 3

[Alison Wheeler [:AlisonW]]

a quick make of the template option.

"{{link|w|Mozilla}}" creates "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla Mozilla]" and shows "Mozilla"

"{{link|w|Mozilla|Mozillaaaaaa}}" creates "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla Mozillaaaaa]" and shows "Mozillaaaaa"

Comment 4

[Christie Koehler [:ckoehler]]

This has been added:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Special:Log/interwiki