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Create a link to an English Wikipedia article from another wiki creates a [[wikipedia:]] link instead of an [[:en:]] link
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Description

Initial report.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Copy the URL to an article on English Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo)
  2. go to another wiki than English Wikipedia
  3. create a link with the URL you have copyied (labelled "Test" on my example)

Expectation: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo Test] or [[:en:Foo|Test]]
Reality: [[Wikipedia:Foo|Test]]

Tested and reproduced on French Wikipedia and on Catalan Wikipedia. This bug breaks some links by creating links to the Wikipedia: namespace.

If I create on English Wikipedia a link to a French Wikipedia article, the link is rendered well.

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Trizek-WMF renamed this task from Create a link to an English Wikipedia article from another wiki creates a [[wikipedia:]] link to Create a link to an English Wikipedia article from another wiki creates a [[wikipedia:]] link instead of an [[:en:]] link.May 11 2017, 1:56 PM
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I tested this on frwp and it seems to work now. I think this was a Parsoid mix-up (maybe T177784?) that was fixed.