https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39199
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Bug #: 39199
Summary: Resursive interwiki link handling should be possible
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: General/Unknown
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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Sometimes interwiki links like [[Wikipedia:fr:France]] are used.
This could be problematic when we start outputting hreflang on interwiki links.
[[Wikipedia:fr:France]] would end up with a hreflang="en" instead of the
correct hreflang="fr".
Additionally it would be much nicer to have direct hrefs. Besides looking saner
when the user hovers over the link it would also play much nicer with the
browser's :visited handling.
And it's not that unreasonable for someone to suggest "We should have a
sitename in the title/tooltip". In which case [[Wikipedia:fr:France]] becomes
"fr:France - Wikipedia" instead of the "France - Wikipédia" that we want.
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Basically this means that after we've parsed out our interwiki we should
consider parsing out interwikis that other wikis use.
I manage to come up with an idea how this could be done for non-local wikis.
We handle this in multiple passes.
- The first time we see [[Wikipedia:fr:France]] when parsing an article we end
up outputting it the same way we do now as (Wikipedia, fr:France)
- Because an interwiki for a site we don't know any information about was used
a job is queued after parsing
- In the job we do an API fetch to the other wiki to get site info and the
wiki's local interwiki map and we store this info
- After this info is fetched we do refreshlinks jobs on the page(s) where
interwiki links to this wiki was used
- This second time around when parsing now that we've stored the interwiki map
we parse [[Wikipedia:fr:France]] as (Wikipedia:fr, France) now that we know
that Wikipedia: has a fr: inside of it's local interwiki map.
This is the way it would work for remote wikis. We might do the code for this a
little more abstractly. So that local cases that only require a sql lookup can
be handled. And so that cases like Wikia's custom [[w:c:foo:Bar]] can also be
handled by them implementing some extra code.
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