It depends on the interwiki settings. Some have 'local' [1] enabled, some not.
See the documentation[1]: > iw_local: informs MediaWiki how it should treat interwiki links > coming from external sources. If iw_local is 1, then it will treat > these links as though they were generated from within the local wiki. > For example, the interwiki link fr: on the en.wikipedia.org project > has iw_local=1 set. Therefore, the link to > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fr:Accueil > gracefully redirects you to the French Homepage (Accueil). However, > the Wikimedia foundation project site is flagged 0 on > en.wikipedia.org; the link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wikimedia:Home > does not work, even though [[wikimedia:Home]] would work if it were > on a local Wikipedia page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/commons:Apple This example works fine, no need for any weird stuff. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/mw:DB This one doesn't and only works when done from within a page (like [[mw:DB]]) becuase iw_local is 0. I think the Special:Search entry is a bug / undocumented feature in that it ignored the 'local'-setting. --Krinkle [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Interwiki_table Op 19 sep 2010, om 00:34 heeft MZMcBride het volgende geschreven: > Aryeh Gregor wrote: >> Right now third-party software can do stuff like <a >> href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1";> and replace $1 by user input, >> and it will work basically like [[$1]] typed on Wikipedia, and that's >> good. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/mw:Not_really... > > I still don't understand why users (third-party or not) are forced > to use > links http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search? > search=mw:like_this in > order to redirect properly. > > MZMcBride > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
