chapter: interwiki redirects to invalid subdomains like en.wikimedia.org
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	Jan 16 2015, 7:46 AM

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On any wiki without a matching chapter wiki, [[chapter:foo]] creates invalid links.

e.g. on it.wp, [[chapter:foo]] creates a valid link to subdomain https://it.wikimedia.org (which redirects to a different site)

however on en.wp, it creates an invalid link to subdomain https://en.wikimedia.org/wiki/foo , which is server not found!

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=interwikimap and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Interwiki has an entry:

chapter //en.wikimedia.org/wiki/$1 yes

Recently removed and re-added on 1 March 2013 by

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/51365/
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/51367/

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Mentioned Here: T26442: "chapter:" interwiki link doesn't work for non .wikimedia.org chapters wikis
T22061: chapter: interwiki from sr.wikipedia point to missing sr.wikimedia.org

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jayvdb created this task.Jan 16 2015, 7:46 AM

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jayvdb added projects: Wikimedia-Language-setup, MediaWiki-extensions-Interwiki, Pywikibot-Interwiki-Map, Wikimedia-Interwiki-links, MediaWiki-extensions-WikimediaMaintenance.

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TTO closed this task as a duplicate of T22061: chapter: interwiki from sr.wikipedia point to missing sr.wikimedia.org.Jan 16 2015, 8:39 AM

jayvdb renamed this task from chapter: interwiki redirects to en.wikimedia.org to chapter: interwiki redirects to invalid subdomains like en.wikimedia.org.Jan 16 2015, 9:07 AM

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@TTO, I think this is a different problem to T26442/T22061 .

In both of those , you recommend deprecating 'chapter:' , and I couldnt agree more. But that has not happened.

Worse than that, 'chapter:' exists on every WMF wiki, even when it is completely inappropriate and illogical. <- This should be easy to fix by changing dumpInterwiki.php and friends, and this is what this task is about.

If for some bizarre reason we must have 'chapter:' , even on Meta, Outreach, English Wikipedia, Commons, it should point to meta by default.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Interwiki

Seems like exactly the same issue as T22061 to me.

In any case, it would be good to use this issue to track the removal of chapter: on wikis where it does not work. chapter: is quite heavily used on Polish projects in particular, so it can't just be removed altogether.

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