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In T363538#9815582 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T363538#9815582>, @Kusma wrote: > The easiest solution in my view is to let mos: become a normal interwiki prefix like all others. Yes, this breaks a couple thousand links on the English Wikipedia. Most of them (those not in old edit summaries) can be fixed by a few bot runs. For the people who type in shortcuts or follow links from old edit summaries, just temporarily (for a year or two) turn the target pages on the new Moore Wikipedia into soft redirects with information that this is a deprecated shortcut. > > I do not think weird special cases in the interwiki system are a good idea. (And I say that as an enwiki editor who likes the MOS: shortcuts and has defended them at RFD for more than a decade). I think you're vastly underestimating the scale of the problem: At https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Moor%C3%A9#Comments, @Pcoombe wrote: > Unfortunately I don't think breaking all those links on en.wikipedia is viable. Even if you could convince the community to start using longer WP: style shortcuts (good luck!) and update the documentation everywhere, you'll still break all the uses in past edit summaries. A quick query suggests that's around 42,000 uses of MOS: in June 2023 alone. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T363538 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Pppery Cc: Dzahn, Kusma, Dcljr, Nintendofan885, Peachey88, Thibaut120094, jhsoby, Bugreporter, mb, Izno, Shahadusadik, Pcoombe, Aklapper, Pppery, Danny_Benjafield_WMDE, DreamRimmer, Mutumanikam, Angpradesh, S8321414, AgusDamanik, LisafBia6531, Astuthiodit_1, Yodas_henchman, Hyphen, NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh, karapayneWMDE, Tahmid, Jonathan5566, Invadibot, Luwanglinux, LaMagiaaa, Func, Zabe, RuiyuShen, maantietaja, Juan90264, ItamarWMDE, Akuckartz, Dringsim, Killarnee, Winston_Sung, CptViraj, AKA_MBG, Joye_Zhang, Dibya, VulpesVulpes825, Brainulator9, SunAfterRain, 94rain, Nandana, Tks4Fish, Hamishcn, Awangba_Mangang, KirkLU, Lahi, Gq86, JunaidHafeez, BJ6123C7BTD, GoranSMilovanovic, lisong, Allthingsgo, QZanden, KimKelting, Acer, Kizule, LawExplorer, Devwaker, Niklitov, _jensen, Urbanecm, rosalieper, Htchien, Taiwania_Justo, JEumerus, Scott_WUaS, Ananthsubray, Superzerocool, Stanglavine, Tulsi_Bhagat, Wong128hk, Luke081515, Fuzheado, SimmeD, Cwek, Wikidata-bugs, Snowolf, Base, aude, Koavf, zhuyifei1999, Shizhao, Billinghurst, Matanya, Mbch331, Liuxinyu970226, Rxy, Jay8g, Krenair
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