Because if you prefix a wikilink link with a single colon it always works as a link regardless of namespace. And until the recent MediaWiki change two colons worked too, so if a template wants to accept both prefixed and unprefixed links, it can append a single colon to the front.
I see that the linter has been deployed, but it doesn't seem to be picking up errors that result from template transcriptions, e.g. https://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A9%A9 (Neither this page nor the template the caused the error has been changed since the MediaWiki breaking change.) https://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:LintErrors/multi-colon-escape shows no matches. On 29 September 2017 at 22:52, Arlo Breault <abrea...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > On Sep 29, 2017, at 5:17 PM, Bartosz Dziewoński <matma....@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > might be prefixed with a colon > > Is there a reason why it only *might* be? > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list > Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors >
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