creating links from commons to en-wikipedia fails with message A page "Category:XYZ" could not be found on "mediawikiwiki". The external client site "mediawikiwiki" did not provide page information for page "Category:XYZ"
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	Mar 11 2020, 11:25 PM

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When trying to link https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Lactalis with the 'Add Links' menu item on the side menu I chose in the pop-up window as language en and then i put in the field for page 'Category:Lactalis' and when clicking then on the button 'Link page' i got the following error message:

A page "Category:Lactalis" could not be found on "mediawikiwiki".

The external client site "mediawikiwiki" did not provide page information for page "Category:Lactalis".

An this despite the fact that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lactalis exists.

It is very clear that the fact that the erorr message says "A page "Category:Lactalis" could not be found on "mediawikiwiki"." indicates that this function looks for a wikimedia project 'mediawikiwiki' which obviously does not exist. unfortunately I have no clue to look where this setting was put erronously as I suppose that in some setins or eventually translations en was replaced with mediawiki.

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Mentioned In: T247562: Warning: Memcached::setMulti(): failed to set key global:segment:...
T247908: namespace choice in Wikipedia gets namespace names from Wikisource
Mentioned Here: T247712: Interwiki link problem on various wikis
T247078: Main pages of several Beta Cluster wikis redirect to other production wikis (MessageCache keyspace is same for all wikis causing conflicts)

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Robby created this task.Mar 11 2020, 11:25 PM

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Robby added subscribers: Raymond, Mike_Peel, Lydia_Pintscher.Mar 11 2020, 11:28 PM

Robby updated the task description. (Show Details)Mar 11 2020, 11:34 PM

Robby added a subscriber: siebrand.

The same error happens for the pair of pages: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Songwe_Region and https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Songwe_Region

Robby renamed this task from creating links from commons to en-wikipedia fails with message A page "XYZ" could not be found on "mediawikiwiki". The external client site "mediawikiwiki" did not provide page information for page "XYZ" to creating links from commons to en-wikipedia fails with message A page "Category:XYZ" could not be found on "mediawikiwiki". The external client site "mediawikiwiki" did not provide page information for page "Category:XYZ".Mar 12 2020, 6:07 AM

I get a different problem when trying to reproduce this, which may be related - typing "en" does not return English Wikipedia, just 'enwikibooks', see screenshot. Same for 'de', 'nl', etc.

A work-around is to add the commons sitelink through 'other sites' directly on Wikidata, which works fine (tested at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29215893 with Songwe Region).

Screenshot 2020-03-12 at 08.04.13.png (514×1 px, 51 KB)

Lydia_Pintscher triaged this task as High priority.Mar 12 2020, 8:57 AM

Lydia_Pintscher added a project: Wikidata-Campsite.

Reported on cswiki: https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedie:Pod_l%C3%ADpou_(technika)#P%C3%A1rov%C3%A1n%C3%AD_Commons_s_CS.WP

matej_suchanek updated the task description. (Show Details)Mar 12 2020, 10:13 AM

Snímek z 2020-03-12 11-45-17.png (743×1 px, 325 KB)

Maybe it is just my theory, but it looks quite similar to T247078

By now the error message has changed 'mediawikiwiki' has now changed to 'metawiki'

2020-03-12 22_35_25-Category_Songwe Region - Wikimedia Commons.png (1×1 px, 84 KB)

and just on another exemple the error message refers to 'specieswiki'

2020-03-12 22_44_55-Category_Overseas Burmese Buddhist temples - Wikimedia Commons.png (634×1 px, 59 KB)

By now I receive a similar behaviour as Mike Peel received yesterday. As an exemple I received on the page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Caister-on-Sea the following situation:

2020-03-13 22_32_35-Category_Caister-on-Sea - Wikimedia Commons.png (497×1 px, 39 KB)

where you can clearly see tha when trying to select the language in the opo-up box for adding interwiki link I get just suggestions from wikiquote projects.

Some time earlier today (half an hour) the situation was different and I got just other projects in the same pop-up box.

Just a few minutes later i get on the same page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Caister-on-Sea the following situation:

2020-03-13 22_45_24-Category_Caister-on-Sea - Wikimedia Commons.png (620×1 px, 53 KB)

and then I manage to finalize the operation successfully and the iw link is added successfully on wikidata.

While on https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bridges_completed_in_1772 i just get suggestions of wikivoyage projects:

2020-03-13 23_04_34-Category_Bridges completed in 1772 - Wikimedia Commons.png (503×1 px, 32 KB)

Per T247712 this affects more wikis than just Commons.

Indeed T247712 describes the same phenomenon and I suppose we could merge this task here with T247712

Should we merge them?

Dvorapa mentioned this in T247908: namespace choice in Wikipedia gets namespace names from Wikisource.Mar 17 2020, 10:23 PM

Dvorapa mentioned this in T247562: Warning: Memcached::setMulti(): failed to set key global:segment:....Mar 18 2020, 3:06 AM

matej_suchanek awarded a token.Mar 18 2020, 8:19 AM

Yeah lets :)

Lydia_Pintscher closed this task as a duplicate of T247712: Interwiki link problem on various wikis.Mar 18 2020, 8:28 AM

matej_suchanek rescinded a token.Mar 18 2020, 8:34 AM

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