https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60135
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Bug ID: 60135
Summary: Create deprecateInterwiki.php to edit pages,
converting interwiki links to external links
Product: MediaWiki
Version: 1.23-git
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Maintenance scripts
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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Currently, people are reluctant to get rid of obsolete interwiki prefixes,
because of historical reasons (i.e. they are still used in a lot of pages). See
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-January/074015.html
A maintenance script should be created to go through the iwlinks table, find
all the instances in which the interwiki is used, and edit the pages to replace
those interwiki links with external links. Sometimes a template, e.g.
[[metawikipedia:Template:w]], is used, so it would be necessary to fix those
templates manually, I suppose. Those template pages don't show up in the
iwlinks table.
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