770076 - MDN prefix missing from wiki.mozilla.org interwiki table

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[skierpage]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120621 Firefox/14.0 SeaMonkey/2.11
Build ID: 20120621204936

Steps to reproduce:

On wiki.mozilla.org you can present links to Mozilla Developer Network pages using an "MDC" prefix, e.g. [[MDC:Developer Guide/Coding Style]] in https://wiki.mozilla.org/Gaia ; these "interwiki" links don't appear as external links with an arrow.  But "MDC" is the obsolete term, it's now MDN, which the wiki doesn't support.


Actual results:

Edit a wiki page, try [[MDN:Developer Guide/Coding Style]], click [Show preview] , see that it doesn't work.


Expected results:

wiki.mozilla.org's interwiki map should support an MDN prefix as well as the outdated MDC.  Note also bug 639114 to support a [[wikipedia:]] interwiki prefix, and there may be other useful ones.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=interwikimap presents w.m.o's set of interwiki prefixes (only one item); details are at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Interwiki

Comment 1

[Amir Aharoni]

There's a MediaWiki extension that makes maintaining interwiki prefixes very easy:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Interwiki

I happen to be one of its developers.

Comment 2

[Christie Koehler [:ckoehler]]

There is now an entry for MDN in the interwiki table:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=interwikimap

Prefix is mdc, not mdn, however, so links need to be entered as:
[[mdc:Developer Guide/Coding Style]]

Is this sufficient, or do we want to change the prefix to mdn?

Comment 3

[Gordon P. Hemsley [:GPHemsley]]

This bug is to add an additional 'mdn' entry. We'll keep the 'mdc' entry for legacy purposes.

Comment 4

[Christie Koehler [:ckoehler]]

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