https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57054
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Bug ID: 57054
Summary: Add iw_regex field
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Database
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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As Dantman points out, "Interwiki patterns also do not support generic URLs
very well. They are primarily intended for other wikis and hence MediaWiki
currently does some encoding of the value after the prefix: in ways that make
it unusable for adding new sites generically, for example see what it does to a
google: interwiki link." This would present a barrier to using the interwiki
table as a spam whitelist for those URLs.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Alternatives_to_applying_the_same_nofollow/dofollow_value_to_all_external_links#Make_more_use_of_interwiki_links
We could add a serialized field to the interwiki table that uses regular
expressions to change, say, spaces to plus signs, if that's how the website
formats its URLs. I'm not all that skilled with regular expressions, and my use
cases are usually pretty simple, so I just use
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:InterwikiRegex , which uses
str_replace. Regex would be more powerful, though.
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