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Add "Wikimedia" to the list of allowed fowarding prefixes.
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Author: mulukhiyya-lj

Description:
I think it might be useful that we can use URLs like:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Press_releases/Wikimedia_announces_Yahoo_support

I found this URL here:
http://jeays.net/wikipedia/announcements-rss-2.0.xml


Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 8:18 PM
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I don't understand what's being suggested or why.

mulukhiyya-lj wrote:

I meant that a URL with an interwiki title (from en.wikipedia.org to
wikimediafoundation.org) seem not to work.

[[Wikimedia:Developer]]
---> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Developer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Developer
-X-> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Developer (Error)

[[Meta:Developer]]
---> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta:Developer
---> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer

Sorry for bad English...

avarab wrote:

Brion: He wants "Wikimedia" to be added to the list of allowed forwarding
prefixes, just as http://*.wikiwhatever.org/wiki/meta:$1 is forwarded to
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/$1 he wants
http://*.wikiwhatever.org/wiki/wikimedia:$1 to be forwarded to
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/$1

I've changed the summary to reflect this.

robchur wrote:

Appears to have been done some time ago.

  • Bug 14795 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***