Interwiki link problem on various wikis
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	HastaLaVi2
	Mar 15 2020, 7:58 PM

Description

When trying to add interwiki links to a page on Wiktionary, it tries to match with Wikisource pages. Also when tried the same on Wikisource, wikipedia links show up.

Seems like adding sitelink from Wikibase client (aka Wikipedia) is broken - it looks up for wrong current site (for example hewiki thinks it is jawiktionary) and it isn't possible to link to other site.

How to reproduce

Go to page not connected to item such as: https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/יעקב_טולידאנו_(קהלת_יעקב)?uselang=en
Press "add links"
in the site field fill enwiki - note it will suggest enwiktionary (not enwiki)

root cause
I couldn't determine the exact root cause, but quick debug point to

wikibase.client.linkitem.init.js

and specifically this line: config = require( './config.json' ).currentSite

returns wrong site. (maybe not deterministic - but at least once I saw jawiktionary instead of hewiki)

I'm not sure what "require" points to - and whether this is just site configuration or code issue - so I'm adding all the suspects as tags

Turkish Wiktionary
Tried this on Wiktionary:Images. You could test it there with Vikisözlük:Resimler on Turkish Wiktionary.

Related Objects

Mentioned In: T247477: creating links from commons to en-wikipedia fails with message A page "Category:XYZ" could not be found on "mediawikiwiki". The external client site "mediawikiwiki" did not provide page information for page "Category:XYZ"
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T247078: Main pages of several Beta Cluster wikis redirect to other production wikis (MessageCache keyspace is same for all wikis causing conflicts)
T247714: Interwiki tool not working in cawiki and cawikitionary

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HastaLaVi2 created this task.Mar 15 2020, 7:58 PM

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Reedy added a project: MediaWiki-Interwiki.Mar 15 2020, 8:27 PM

Dupe of T247714: Interwiki tool not working in cawiki and cawikitionary ?

It looks like a new item was created by whatever you were doing if I look at
https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q87748026&action=history
which was created by you and was moved by you to the other item
https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q13391335&action=history

We are going to need a better step by step guide to replication if we are to investigate the Wikisource side. From the wikidata item I am only seeing the appropriate linking offering from the proper wikis.

Billinghurst removed a project: All-and-every-Wikisource.Mar 16 2020, 11:28 AM

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Hi @Aklapper, the problem is solved somehow. I do not know how though. Thank you for your interest.

No, now there is another problem, I am going to explain in more detail.

Ok so,

Go to the page Wiktionary:Images on English Wiktionary.
On the sidebar, under languages tab, there is "add links". Click on it.
From the window try to add an interwiki link to Vikisözlük:Resimler, which is equivalent page on Turkish Wiktionary.
It says "Wiktionary:Images" could not be found in ruwiktionary. So it thinks that we are making this change on Russion Wiktionary, when we are actually on English Wiktionary.

Now we are going to try the opposite of this, adding the English link from Turkish Wiktionary;

Go to the page Vikisözlük:Resimler on Turkish Wiktionary.
From the sidebar under "diller" (languages) tab click on "bağlantı ekle" (add links).
Now from the same tab, we are going to try adding Wiktionary:Images from English Wiktionary.
This time you will see that on the first textarea, when you type "en", enwiki shows up, which is the English Wikipedia, what we want is English Wiktionary. This time we won't be able to search any page at all.

I hope this is more understandable. Thanks.

Reedy merged tasks: T247714: Interwiki tool not working in cawiki and cawikitionary, T247794: "Add links" function works incorrectly.Mar 16 2020, 9:46 PM

Reedy edited projects, added MediaWiki-extensions-WikibaseClient, Wikidata-Campsite, Wikidata; removed MediaWiki-Interwiki.

Reedy added a project: Regression.

Reedy added subscribers: Paucabot, SJu, Vriullop and 2 others.

RhinosF1 merged a task: T247808: Create sitelink is broken - lookup for current site is wrong.Mar 17 2020, 6:30 AM

RhinosF1 added subscribers: eranroz, hoo, Krinkle.