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[WelcomeSurvey] Links on the "Getting started" module are in English, hence creating redlinks
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The Welcome survey page doesn't display links to non-existing pages in red

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Interesting that instead of the incorrect link reported in the task - https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedie:Tutorial&source=survey - I got another incorrect link: https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipédia:Tutoriel&source=survey

I checked - ruwiki, 'ukwiki`, kowiki and plwiki - the links seem to be ok.

hewiki has one non-existing link for Tutorial - https://he.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ויקיפדיה:Tutorial&source=survey

<ul class="welcomesurvey-gettingstarted-links"><li class="mw-parser-output"><a href="/w/index.php?title=%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%93%D7%99%D7%94:Tutorial&amp;source=survey" target="_blank" class="external">Tutorial</a></li> //the page doesn't exist
<li class="mw-parser-output"><a href="/w/index.php?title=%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%93%D7%99%D7%94:Help_desk&amp;source=survey" target="_blank" class="external">Help Desk</a></li></ul> //the page exists

The frwiki help desk is plain untranslated:

The others work when the user language matches the content language. Should we set these messages to use content language? That would make them point to the right place when a different user language is set, but would make it impossible to have links to different pages in different languages.

The frwiki help desk is plain untranslated:

The others work when the user language matches the content language. Should we set these messages to use content language? That would make them point to the right place when a different user language is set, but would make it impossible to have links to different pages in different languages.

So it seems only frwiki problem? I re-checked cswiki and hewiki - yes, the links seem to be correctly re-directing to the help desk/tutorial pages.

Just in case - here is how I check;

  • log in
  • add Special:WelcomeSurvey?_group=exp2_target_specialpage to the url
  • and click on the links - Tutorial and Help desk in Getting started with editing module

Per Slack discussion, this doesn't really need fixing - new users are extremely unlikely to see Special:WelcomeSurvey in anything other than the content language.