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There's an obscure easter egg feature in MediaWiki where if you put "RFC X" (where X is a number) it automatically creates a link to the Internet Engineering Task Force RFC at tools.ietf.org. This was probably fine in the early days of Wikipedia, but it's now an annoying anachronism. Wikipedia has it's own RFCs ([[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Archive.is_RFC_4#Support_Vote | some of which are numbered ]]) and when people mention them, they get these automatic links to the wrong place and people get very confused. The links even get created in Echo notifications. Can we kill this feature?

There's an obscure easter egg feature in MediaWiki where if you put "RFC X" (where X is a number) it automatically creates a link to the Internet Engineering Task Force RFC at tools.ietf.org. This was probably fine in the early days of Wikipedia, but it's now an annoying anachronism. Wikipedia has it's own RFCs ([[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Archive.is_RFC_4#Support_Vote | some of which are numbered ]]) and when people mention them, they get these automatic links to the wrong place and people get very confused. The links even get created in Echo notifications (T70217). Can we kill this feature?

There's an obscure easter egg feature in MediaWiki where if you put "RFC X" (where X is a number) it automatically creates a link to the Internet Engineering Task Force RFC at tools.ietf.org. This was probably fine in the early days of Wikipedia, but it's now an annoying anachronism. Wikipedia has it's own RFCs ([[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Archive.is_RFC_4#Support_Vote | some of which are numbered ]]) and when people mention them, they get these automatic links to the wrong place and people get very confused. The links even get created in Echo notifications (T70217). Can we kill this feature?