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Interwiki links are incorrectly configured on MB wiki

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      MusicBrainz wiki contains interwiki links to many wikis and other web pages. Most of them are classic interwiki links (one can link to them like [[bb:something]] to BookBrainz, see https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/MusicBrainz_Wiki). But two of these are incorrectly configured as language links:

      • ab for AcousticBrainz incorrectly classified as a wiki in Abkhazian language
      • lb for ListenBrainz incorrectly classified as a wiki in Luxembourgish language

      See also https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Special:Interwiki. This makes several issues:

      • One can not link to them like [[ab:something]], you have to use [[:ab:something]]
      • Links are handled like pages in Abkhazian/Luxembourgish language by MediaWiki
      • API of the wiki for bots and other tools (Pywikibot) returns three wiki language variants instead of one (english, abkhazian and luxembourgish) to the user to choose from

      PS: This issue might have been already tracked here, but I can't find any result. See also https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130381 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T243669 both reporting wrong wiki interwiki configuration

          [OTHER-353] Interwiki links are incorrectly configured on MB wiki

          Aleš Kvapil added a comment - - edited

          Vast majority of described issues could be solved by setting $wgInterwikiMagic=false.

          The rest of described issues could be solved by upgrade to MW 1.35 (currently in beta).

          Aleš Kvapil added a comment - - edited Vast majority of described issues could be solved by setting $wgInterwikiMagic=false. The rest of described issues could be solved by upgrade to MW 1.35 (currently in beta).

          Aleš Kvapil added a comment -

          Okay, the issue with "One can not link to them like [[ab:something]], you have to use [[:ab:something]]" can be fixed by $wgInterwikiMagic=false

          Aleš Kvapil added a comment - Okay, the issue with "One can not link to them like [ [ab:something] ], you have to use [ [:ab:something] ]" can be fixed by $wgInterwikiMagic=false

          Aleš Kvapil added a comment -

          PS 3: This really seems to be an issue with MediaWiki. I will try to explain an issue to them too

          Aleš Kvapil added a comment - PS 3: This really seems to be an issue with MediaWiki. I will try to explain an issue to them too

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