https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21405
Summary: Use double colons for interwiki to avoid false positives
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
URL: http://st.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNG
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: Page rendering
AssignedTo: wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
ReportedBy: seahen...@gmail.com
On Wikipedia in any language, attempting to look up with the "Go" button such
accurate names and common abbreviations as "ST:TNG", "M:TG" or "Species: The
Awakening", among other mostly entertainment-related examples, leads to another
Wikimedia project or another language Wikipedia. In a few cases, soft redirects
lead to the desired article, but they can't possibly cover all languages.
I suggest that namespaces and interlanguage/interwiki links switch to using
double colons (e.g. [[wikt::unambiguous]], [[Talk::Main Page]]) to avoid such
issues. This change would be simple to implement in MediaWiki, and the
necessary conversion would also be simple given a few sed invocations and a
list of language and interwiki codes.
For consistency, Media and Category links that are to render as normal links
should probably also start with double colons.
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