Going to a non-local interwiki directly should display the same thing as GoToInterwiki.
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	Oct 18 2024, 11:29 PM

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Feature summary (what you would like to be able to do and where):

For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/google:foo should display the same thing as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:GoToInterwiki/google:foo, rather than a nondescript bad title error

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Badtitletext#Protected_edit_request_on_18_October_2024

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Helps people get where they're going.

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Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Author	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	ActionEntryPoint: Redirect non-local interwiki to Special:GoToInterwiki	Pppery	mediawiki/core	master	+43 -11

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Mentioned In: T418683: The interwiki link in the temporary account banner tooltip isn't parsed as an interwiki link
Mentioned Here: T418683: The interwiki link in the temporary account banner tooltip isn't parsed as an interwiki link
T122209: Special:Search allows redirects to any interwiki link

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Pppery created this task.Oct 18 2024, 11:29 PM

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Note: this is originally suggested when this special page is created, see T122209#2006136

Pppery updated the task description. (Show Details)Oct 19 2024, 2:44 AM

Change #1088866 had a related patch set uploaded (by Pppery; author: Pppery):

[mediawiki/core@master] Redirect non-local interwikis to Special:GoToInterwiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1088866

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Nov 10 2024, 3:15 AM

Pppery claimed this task.Nov 10 2024, 3:32 AM

Pppery merged a task: T18199: Bad title error should provide link to site if possible.Jan 7 2025, 2:03 AM

Pppery added a subscriber: • MZMcBride.

I like this idea. This would offer a partial solution to a problem that comes up from time to time: links in localisation messages used in JavaScript don't work correctly when linking to non-local interwikis (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Messages_API#Feature_support_in_JavaScript). I've seen it reported most recently in T418683: The interwiki link in the temporary account banner tooltip isn't parsed as an interwiki link, but it comes up regularly, e.g. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/743943 is another one I remembered.

I'll ask some more people to weigh in, since it seems like a notable change to the behavior of a security-sensitive feature, but if no one objects, I'd like to approve this.

• matmarex mentioned this in T418683: The interwiki link in the temporary account banner tooltip isn't parsed as an interwiki link.Mar 6 2026, 6:42 PM

Pppery removed a subscriber: • MZMcBride.Mar 6 2026, 7:12 PM

Johannnes89 subscribed.Mar 6 2026, 9:32 PM

Change #1088866 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] ActionEntryPoint: Redirect non-local interwiki to Special:GoToInterwiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1088866

Pppery closed this task as Resolved.Mar 26 2026, 1:44 AM

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