Steps to replicate the issue:
- Within VE at a Wikipedia, try to add a link to Wikipedia:About
What happens?:
- The link tool autofills it as an interwiki link to the content-namespace page About - I.e. wikipedia:About
Original bug-report:
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Customize query in gerrit
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Possibly caused by https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/1238740?
When a namespace and an interwiki conflict, the namespace should win (e.g. "Wikipedia:" vs "wikipedia:", "MOS:" vs "mos:" T363538).
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Change #1254187 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders; author: Esanders):
[mediawiki/core@master] TitleWidget: Prioritise namespace prefix over interwiki prefix
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Change #1254189 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders; author: Esanders):
[mediawiki/core@wmf/1.46.0-wmf.19] TitleWidget: Prioritise namespace prefix over interwiki prefix
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Change #1254190 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders; author: Esanders):
[mediawiki/core@wmf/1.46.0-wmf.20] TitleWidget: Prioritise namespace prefix over interwiki prefix
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Change #1254187 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@master] TitleWidget: Prioritise namespace prefix over interwiki prefix
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Change #1254189 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@wmf/1.46.0-wmf.19] TitleWidget: Prioritise namespace prefix over interwiki prefix
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Change #1254190 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@wmf/1.46.0-wmf.20] TitleWidget: Prioritise namespace prefix over interwiki prefix
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Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-03-17T13:37:43Z] <esanders@deploy2002> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1254189|TitleWidget: Prioritise namespace prefix over interwiki prefix (T420288)]], [[gerrit:1254190|TitleWidget: Prioritise namespace prefix over interwiki prefix (T420288)]]
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Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-03-17T13:39:43Z] <esanders@deploy2002> esanders: Backport for [[gerrit:1254189|TitleWidget: Prioritise namespace prefix over interwiki prefix (T420288)]], [[gerrit:1254190|TitleWidget: Prioritise namespace prefix over interwiki prefix (T420288)]] synced to the testservers (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug). Changes can now be verified there.
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Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-03-17T13:45:52Z] <esanders@deploy2002> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1254189|TitleWidget: Prioritise namespace prefix over interwiki prefix (T420288)]], [[gerrit:1254190|TitleWidget: Prioritise namespace prefix over interwiki prefix (T420288)]] (duration: 08m 10s)