Talk:Interwiki map

Interwiki map

The associated page is used by the Mediawiki software to add and remove interwiki link prefixes (such as [[w:blah]] to "blah" on Wikipedia). Any meta administrator can edit the interwiki map. Please post comments to the appropriate section (Proposed additions, Proposed removals, Requests for updates, Troubleshooting, or Other discussions); read the boxes at the top of each for an explanation. Completed requests are moved to the archives.

Proposed additions [edit]

The Interwiki Map exists to allow a more efficient syntax for linking between wikis, and thus promote the cooperation and proliferation of wikis and free content.

This section is for proposing a new interwiki link prefix. Interwiki prefixes should be reserved for websites that would be useful on a significant number of pages ({{LinkSummary}} can help). Websites useful only to a few pages should be linked to with the usual external link syntax. Please don't propose additions of sites with too few pages or that contain copyright infringing content, such as YouTube. As a guide, sites considered for inclusion should probably

provide clear and relevant use to the Wikimedia projects
be trusted not to encourage spam links being added to the Wikimedia projects
be free content (under a Commons-acceptable license)
be a wiki
have reasonable amounts of content
not contain malware

Add new entries at the bottom of the section. When requesting a new prefix, please explain why it would be useful keeping the above in mind. Admins, please allow consensus to form (or at least no objections to be raised over a period of a few days) before adding new entries, as once added they are hard to remove from the many copies around the world.

Requests for removal should be submitted on the talk page in the removals section and will be decided on by a Meta admin.

unihan [edit]

Located here: http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl

WikiPrefix: unihan

Link: http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=$1

Unihan database, wiktionary and Chinese wikipedia many link it--Shizhao (talk) 13:21, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

On hold: someone needs to check the conclusion of the past discussion (if there was one) about adding non-wiki URLs contrary to the current, now-stricter requirements of #Proposed additions. --Nemo 17:49, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

GlyphWiki [edit]

Located here: http://glyphwiki.org/

WikiPrefix: glyphwiki

Link: http://glyphwiki.org/wiki/$1

kanji (hanzi, hanja) glyph database system--Shizhao (talk) 13:21, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

I support this addition, excellent one especially for Wiktionaries.

What they provide would complement entries about characters at Wiktionaries. They have many glyphs that are not standard (thus cannot be written as text on Wiktionaries) but used. They link between related characters, alternative glyphs, relation among radicals, etc.
The wiki already has 290,000 entries as it claims.
There is a vibrant community to improve the information and expand the coverage of glyphs of kanji/hanzi/hanja and other characters, as you can see in its RC.
Their contents are free (but not copyleft); their license allows modification, redistribution and commercial use.

They have two (synchronized) versions, http://glyphwiki.org/wiki/* in Japanese and http://en.glyphwiki.org/wiki/* in English. I suggest prefixes jaglyphwiki for the former and englyphwiki for the latter in order to minimize confusion. --whym (talk) 13:17, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

Hebrew StarTrek Wiki [edit]

Hello, A friend of mine and myself have started a StarTrek Wiki in Hebrew. Proposing , (preferably in hebrew) the interwiki prefix as Sector001 or, in hebrew, סקטור001 . We'd like to add this prefix in Hebrew wikipedia in the hebrew articles regarding charachters, etc. The prefix should stand for http://thesapa.co.il/startrek/index.php?title=$1 . Blasphemer (talk) 18:08, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

TZMWiki [edit]

Located at http://tzmwiki.org/wiki/$1, being able to link there with rbe:, or alternatively with tzmwiki:, would be fantastic. The wiki is young and doesn't have many pages yet, but will continue to grow very quickly in the next few weeks. Rbe10k (talk) 05:18, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Not done This seems premature both in terms of desirability and demonstrated relevance. — billinghurst sDrewth 15:24, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

Conservapedia, RationalWiki and A Storehouse of Knowledge [edit]

cp: rw: storehouse:

This should be OK for everyone. T3h 1337 b0y (talk) 09:04, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

Not done nothing exists to update. If required to be added, please add to the above section with full rationale. — billinghurst sDrewth 10:29, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

Moved. I recommend spelling the names out, conservapedia: and rationalwiki: Leucosticte (talk) 14:04, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

In what situations would we need to link to these wikis? Conservapedia in particular is highly unreliable and biased. Also, "rw" is the language code for Kinyarwanda. LtPowers (talk) 12:49, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

conservapedia.com

(LinkSearch: meta | en | de | fr | ru | simple | Wikipedias: top 20 · 40 · major wikis )(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

rationalwiki.org

(LinkSearch: meta | en | de | fr | ru | simple | Wikipedias: top 20 · 40 · major wikis )(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

astorehouseofknowledge.info

(LinkSearch: meta | en | de | fr | ru | simple | Wikipedias: top 20 · 40 · major wikis )(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

Not done: basically no links from any wiki's main namespace (there are from a handful to a few hundreds on en.wiki's talks, but those are not really relevant). Please reopen if there's some rationale of usage. And yes, of course only Conservapedia and RationalWiki would be acceptable prefixes. --Nemo 14:37, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Internet Archive [edit]

Prefix: Archive (or, if that is too generic, perhaps something like IArchive.)

Link: http://archive.org/details/$1

Reason: It would simplify links to the Internet Archive, especially from the Wikisources and Commons. The archive is a major source of scanned works for Wikisource, as well as files useful for the other projects. It isn't a wiki but it contains lots of useful, free content—some of which is contributed by its users; the ethos seems to be compatible. - AdamBMorgan (talk) 00:50, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

On hold: someone needs to check the conclusion of the past discussion (if there was one) about adding non-wiki URLs contrary to the current, now-stricter requirements of #Proposed additions. --Nemo 17:49, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

The only reference I could find was from 2009 regarding the Google interwiki. It mentions the "should be a wiki" requirement but stresses "should". As above, I think the general spirit of the Internet Archive, providing free access to licensed and public domain media for everyone, is appropriate for Wikimedia. It would also be similar to other interwiki link targets such as Project Gutenberg. (Sorry for the delay in relying, I forgot I made this proposal.) - AdamBMorgan (talk) 15:53, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Hackerspaces.org [edit]

Prefix: hs (the Identi.ca group and common tag for hacker spaces)

Link: http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/$1

Reason: many hackerspaces use wiki, and many WikiMedia, to promote free (as in freedom) technical knowledge. A broad range of technical and technology articles would benefit from linking to local projects and global initiatives from the hackerspaces community, including grassroots experiments in a wide range of research fields, such as computer science, programming, repair, and invention, electronics, bio-technologies, drones, etc. The contents on the HS wiki often bring a hands-on complement to WP articles, allowing readers to explore a topic further and experiment for themselves.

Note: there's a discussion dated June 2012, where someone states "Just to remind ourselves: Wikipedia is not a directory, and I think we'd be hard pressed to describe the current list as anything but an incomplete and haphazard directory of hackerspaces." That reason alone should justify an InterWiki prefix, so that it's easier to link to Hackerspaces.org directory, and avoid wiki spam from people who calls themselves hackerspaces but don't follow the community criteria (e.g. for-profit so-called "commercial hackerspaces".)

LibrePlanet.org [edit]

Prefix: lp (many wiki pages already use LibrePlanet as a prefix, which makes it redundant)

Link: http://libreplanet.org/wiki/$1

Reason: LP is the wiki companion of the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation. Hence it would enable readers of the articles on free software to meet their peers, and more generally, to help promote free culture.

Uncyclopedia [edit]

This wiki had the uncyclopedia: prefix, which was removed when Wikia moved the project from uncyclopedia.org to uncyclopedia.wikia.com over the community's objections a few years ago. Uncyclopedia moved to a non-Wikia server on Jan 5, 2013; it is not possible to reach their new wiki (or any of a long list of Uncyclopedia languages on non-Wikia sites) using the wikia: prefix and there are still quite a few user pages with broken links to this wiki. 66.102.83.61 08:28, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

Prefix: uncyclopedia:

uncyclopedia.info

(LinkSearch: meta | en | de | fr | ru | simple | Wikipedias: top 20 · 40 · major wikis )(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

uncyclopedia.co

(LinkSearch: meta | en | de | fr | ru | simple | Wikipedias: top 20 · 40 · major wikis )(Search: Google | en (G) | fr (G) | de (G) | meta (G) | backlinks | → links ←)

WeRelate [edit]

prefix: werelate:

link: http://www.werelate.org/wiki/$1

This is a very large wiki (almost 6,500,000 pages total [1]).

Baidu [edit]

prefix:baidu:

link:http://www.baidu.com/s?word=$1

Hey there I'm from Zh-Wikipedia. It has been a routine for me to use the "namespace" of google:. But you know, in Chinese, Google can't be everything. Baidu is a Chinese search engine which can provide more reliable search results in Chinese. So would any admin please add a baidu: link to the current interwiki list? It's an urge need. Besides,due to the Internet censorship in China, many of ZhWP users can't access google successfully. Please consider adding that link.Super Wang (talk) 02:34, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

On hold: someone needs to check the conclusion of the past discussion (if there was one) about adding non-wiki URLs contrary to the current, now-stricter requirements of #Proposed additions. --Nemo 17:49, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

Commons [edit]

Why is ther b: for wikibooks but no c: for commons? would be helpful, mainly on meta pages. --188.23.226.236 13:22, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

See Requests for comment/Wikimedia Commons for a past discussion. Technical difficulties have caused the abbreviation not to exist so far. --MF-W 14:45, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

Moving the conclusion here: "Because it currently conflict with en.wp en:Special:PrefixIndex/C:". ✒ Bennylin 16:46, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Not done for now: so-called "shortcuts" are not to save characters, their feature is that they have a subdomain-dependent behaviour. Commons, in its current setup, doesn't need it (unlike Meta or, in theory, Wikidata). --Nemo 17:32, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

WMF RT [edit]

https://rt.wikimedia.org/

rt (or wmfrt or something. but rt is already in use a bit. see e.g. wikitech:httpsless domains) -> https://rt.wikimedia.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=$1 --Jeremyb (talk) 15:28, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

Done as RT, given that (surprisingly?) it's not a taken language code nor it seems possible to become one, for consistency with former wikitech usage. Should also help with bugzilla:30847 at some point. --Nemo 15:33, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

Proposed removals [edit]

This section is for proposing that a prefix be disabled; please add new entries at the bottom of the section. Remember to explain why it should be disabled, particularly in view of the difficulty involved in correcting any use of the prefix (to generate a list of pages to fix: tswiki:MySQL queries#List of interwiki links from all wikis). Completed requests are marked with {{done}} or {{not done}} and moved to the archives.

Deja News [edit]

I'm surprised that there's still a link to Deja News; Google took over Deja aaages ago. And surely this link (even if it works anymore, and even if there are any instances of it on Wikipedia) merely duplicates the Google Groups link? -- 188.28.160.191 11:03, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

I checked to toolserver database (which contains no private wikis) for finding existing links:

eswikinews: 1 link n:es:Help:Cómo se edita un artículo

eswiki: 1 link w:es:Help:Cómo se edita una página

Merlissimo 13:23, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

Can it be translated somehow to a Google Groups link? is it worth it? --Nemo 18:31, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

Turismo [edit]

Couldn't find any subpages via Google for http://www.tejo.org/turismo/ --173.13.177.204 18:09, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

On hold: see below. Nemo 14:32, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

Not on the provided list, can we please rerun. — billinghurst sDrewth 08:59, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

Removed:[2] unused, according to the lists. --Nemo 21:53, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

allwiki [edit]

The target wiki seems broken and google:site:allwiki.com returns nothing. Liangent 11:29, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

On hold: see below. Nemo 14:32, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

Not on the provided list, can we please rerun. — billinghurst sDrewth 08:59, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

Removed:[3] unused, according to the lists. --Nemo 21:53, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Ourpla [edit]

No longer working TheDJ (talk) 15:53, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

On hold: see below. Nemo 14:32, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

Empty,

Support deletion. — billinghurst sDrewth 08:59, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

This one's is not on the map? Thehelpfulone 13:31, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

Maybe he meant AbbeNormal [4]? --Nemo 21:53, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

FinalEmpire [edit]

No longer available TheDJ (talk) 15:53, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

(Note, checked up to freefeel wiki) TheDJ (talk) 15:53, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

All these should be first delinked (transformed in external links) on all wikis and only then removed, to avoid loss of information, with the possible exception of spam sites. Thanks for your report, Nemo 17:51, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

I've added a list of links for each of the wikis above at tools:~nemobis/tmp/iwm/, please check it to confirm requests. --Nemo 21:52, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

Lovely work Nemo. I concur with your approach and actions. I would also like to see some ability for your ~~toy~~ tool to be more widely available, even if it just did a count or had a count done a regular basis, and there was a means to request a full report in a timely fashion. — billinghurst sDrewth 06:16, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

Empty,

Support deletion. — billinghurst sDrewth 08:59, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

My skill with SQL queries is so close to zero that I asked Liangent to produce the script I used. It's linked from the top of the section, so any Toolserver user can run it and of course I can add or update lists immediately when requested on my talk. So far they don't seem to have been used. --Nemo 06:42, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. Oh well, it was worth the try. :-) Maybe we can put a request at Tech to MZM — billinghurst sDrewth 08:59, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

An API query http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=iwbacklinks&iwblprefix=wikitravel&iwbllimit=500 was mentioned on voy:project:Travellers' Pub but it seems to check only one wiki at a time. A toolserver SQL string is of no use to anyone other than an actual toolserver user (which seems to be just a limited few around here). Certainly the global list of wikitravel: spam is invaluable and something wikivoyageurs will want to know if all those links need to be updated, but it would seem we need the same info for every prefix deletion request here if the sole criterion for deletion is to be use or lack of use on individual wikis. K7L (talk) 16:39, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

The list has already been provided above, but 1) no it's not the sole criterion but surely a requirement; 2) it's not for w:WP:BEANS so if people start pseudo-vandalising wikis I won't produce such lists any longer; 3) wikivoyagers have surely better things to do than removing links to their own wiki (see #Requests for updates). --Nemo 00:58, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

If it's "not the sole criterion but surely a requirement" for any removal request, that's going to affect every request... not just links to one particular wiki (which I won't discuss right now as it's currently in TfD on en: and Pages à Supprimer on fr:). There needs to be some sort of web interface to this toolserver script so anyone can run this query for any prefix before opening a discussion here - much like any WP:AFC n00b simply clicks on "webreflinks" or "citation bot" from an en.wp template to watch those tools do some useful task. K7L (talk) 16:07, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

MetaWikiPedia [edit]

Points to //meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/$1

Wrong. It gives the impression that Meta-Wiki is Wikipedia. If at all, it should be Wikimedia. Also: m: exists and meta: exists too. If it's not widely used I suggest removal or be replaced. I understand it might be there for historical reasons though, but since m and meta do exist I don't see the need for a third interwiki. Regards. -- MarcoAurelio (talk) 16:17, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Not done Speedy closing (because I'm sure you don't mind) for backward compatibility. We have some hundreds of uses, but most of all on many (many!!!) outdated wikis, it's still the only way to link Meta... I very often have to use it for this reason, so you can't really blame people for using it, and it's not actually causing any harm to the others. New releases are ok[5], mw:Extension:InterwikiPrefixes maybe will fix this forever. --Nemo 22:50, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

I use it all the time on my wikis, although I think it would have been better if some different prefix had been used for meta-wiki from the beginning, for the reasons stated by MarcoAurelio. Too late now. Leucosticte (talk) 05:56, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

Sure, no problem. If that is the situation then keep it of course. No harm intended ;-) Regards. -- MarcoAurelio (talk) 20:36, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

Wiki [edit]

Wiki is a very common word nowadays, and most people think of Wikipedia when they see a wiki: link. Instead, probably for historical reasons, it points to http://c2.com, which is a grossly outdated unknown to most web site. They might have been the first wiki, and I have a great respect for that, but I don't think that warrants a "wiki" namespace. They can keep the other three namespaces if that's important. --Yurik (talk) 07:08, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

Agree. -- YPN YPN ✡ 16:30, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

I also agree. I would actually suggest retargeting wiki: to the interwiki map. – Philosopher ^{Let us reason together.} 09:10, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

Oppose. Wikipedia is not the only wiki. Don't reinforce the idea that it's correct to call Wikipedia "Wiki". --Yair rand (talk) 09:50, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

How does removing this prefix reinforce that idea? LtPowers (talk) 02:48, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

I would much prefer that the prefix was removed and unassigned. It is now too generic in its use to be assigned, internally or externally. — billinghurst sDrewth 10:51, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, I misread the proposal. I thought it also included making wiki: direct to Wikipedia. --Yair rand (talk) 17:07, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

Support removal. There is rarely reason to go to c2.com and it has three other more specific prefixes C2:, PyWiki: and WikiWikiWeb:. Most people probably expected to go somewhere else for wiki:, for example Wikipedia or the project space for the wiki they are currently at, or they may think it's a name for the unnamed mainspace. Note: On 25 December I linked this discussion from en:Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)#Question about wikipedia search. All replies were posted since then. Here are other examples of confused users:

en:Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 105#Bug in Wikipedia Search?

en:Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 62#Using the .5B.5Bwiki:anything.5D.5D tag on Wikipedia redirects to non-Wikipedia website

en:Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 52#Entering "wiki:" into search box redirects to http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?

PrimeHunter (talk) 12:59, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

More examples of confused users at the English Wikipedia:

en:Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2009 March 17#Why does search for "wiki:<anything>" goes to a site of Ward Cunningham?

en:Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2009 July 4#Searching for or linking to "wiki:foo" redirects to a blank page at c2.com

en:Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2009 September 11#What is this?

en:Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2011 June 16#Umm...

en:Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2012 January 13#Redirect problem

There is an old discussion at Talk:Interwiki map/Archives/2008#wiki:. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:21, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

Support remove. It is a issue in other languages to - pl.source. Sp5uhe (talk) 02:25, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

Support removal, but keep it unassigned for now until we can (a) assess how many uses of it there are on Wikimedia wikis; and (b) evaluate and decide what the best purpose (if any) of the prefix is. wiki: --> Wikipedia feels nasty. This will need further thought and deliberation. --MZMcBride (talk) 21:31, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

@MZMcBride. You able to dig up the usage information, so we can see how much work is involved to clean up. Thx. — billinghurst sDrewth 06:04, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
Question: Can someone comment on my suggestion that this be retargeted to the interwiki map? If "wiki" is generic, we don't know where they want to go. But that place might be on the map. – Philosopher ^{Let us reason together.} 11:04, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

Do you mean wiki:pagename should ignore pagename and always go to //meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Interwiki_map with no $1? I don't know whether entries with no $1 are allowed, and it would still confuse users who think wiki: is the mainspace or project space at their current wiki. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:21, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

Yes, that is what I meant. I don't know if that's technically possible, but thought it was a good idea. Any confusion issue should be able to be resolved by modifying the note at the top of the InterWiki Map slightly to explain how people got here and what the Interwiki Map is. – Philosopher ^{Let us reason together.} 22:54, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

Support I'm a veteran of the original WikiWikiWeb and can say that while "Wiki" was the way we referred to it back in the day, it doesn't make sense to perpetuate that usage in code on Wikimedia projects, especially when there's already a "c2:" entry. However, all existing uses of "wiki:" links would need to be fixed to "c2:" links before this entry is removed. Also, I don't think it should be assigned to anything again. It's too generic. — Hex (❝?!❞) 18:14, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
How widely used is this? PiRSquared17 (talk) 00:13, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Wikitravel [edit]

No longer of use as the same data is already on Wikimedia's servers as wikivoyage:. The corresponding template has now been voted for deletion on the English, Dutch and French Wikipedia.

At the current time, Wikitravel is just an outdated copy (fork) of Wikivoyage and the prefix is no longer in use in the encyclopaedic content. There are an isolated few instances where it exists on user or talk pages: de en fa fr ja ko pl pt ro ru tr en-source ru-source zh-books

There are also a few mentions of WT in the discussion here on meta regarding the creation of Wikivoyage under the Wikimedia umbrella: commons meta en-mw

Any new links added to articles need to point to the Wikimedia project (Wikivoyage) and not a for-profit rival with largely duplicate content whose owners were suing our contributors in 2012. Please remove the wikitravel: prefix - it has no further legitimate use to Wikimedia and is causing confusion as it had been added in the past to "sibling project" boxes on some wikis when it is clearly not a WMF sibling. 66.102.83.61 08:10, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

Done Removed Wikitravel. Communities have discussed and removed templated use, and no longer consider a primary external link. — billinghurst sDrewth 04:59, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

Swingwiki [edit]

A pile of spam advertising acne medication... did someone let their domain registration expire? It might be worth clicking through the entire list of non-WMF wikis and removing any which don't resolve or return spam. 66.102.83.61 18:13, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Looks unused, +1. --Nemo 21:53, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Broken URLs [edit]

AllWiki	http://allwiki.com/index.php/$1	Bad Request (Invalid Hostname)
BibleWiki	http://bible.tmtm.com/wiki/$1	Shared webhost default placeholder
CorpKnowPedia	http://corpknowpedia.org/wiki/index.php/$1	Spam/not a wiki.
DejaNews	http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=$1	Redirects to Google error page
FinalEmpire	http://final-empire.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?$1	Could not create /home/groups/f/fi/final-empire/wiki: No such file or directory
GotAMac	http://www.got-a-mac.org/$1	404 on all pages
GreatLakesWiki	http://greatlakeswiki.org/index.php/$1	Parked as spam.
JamesHoward	http://jameshoward.us/$1	Personal site, no wiki.
JiniWiki	http://www.cdegroot.com/cgi-bin/jini?$1	Personal site, wiki is 404.
KerimWiki	http://wiki.oxus.net/$1	Subdomain does not resolve
Kpopwiki	http://www.kpopwiki.com/$1	LocalSettings.php missing, wiki not configured
LugKR	http://lug-kr.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/lugwiki.pl?$1	Could not create /home/groups/l/lu/lug-kr/wiki: No such file or directory
OpenFacts	http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=$1	subdomain does not resolve
OSI reference model	http://wiki.tigma.ee/index.php/$1	subdomain does not resolve
PerlNet	http://perl.net.au/wiki/$1	domain does not resolve
SMikipedia	http://www.smiki.de/$1	parked googlesyndication
SVGWiki	http://wiki.svg.org/index.php/$1	subdomain does not resolve
Tavi	http://tavi.sourceforge.net/$1	A "tavi" project exists, subdomain just gives database errors
TESOLTaiwan	http://www.tesol-taiwan.org/wiki/index.php/$1	Sedo parked/for-sale page
TibiaWiki	http://tibia.erig.net/$1	subdomain does not resolve
Vinismo	http://vinismo.com/en/$1	empty webserver default page
Webisodes	http://www.webisodes.org/$1	does not resolve
Wikinvest	http://www.wikinvest.com/$1	appears to not be a wiki
Wikipaltz	http://www.wikipaltz.com/wiki/$1	"godaddy" default placeholder
Wikischool	http://www.wikischool.de/wiki/$1	does not resolve
WikiWeet	http://wikiweet.nl/wiki/$1	default shared host place holder page

Some were moved to #guildwarswiki and updated. I made lists of usages for the prefixes above available at tools:~nemobis/tmp/iwm/, in case someone wants to help me check them. --Nemo 17:45, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

If I understand the format of your files correctly, none of the ones I have looked at are in use at all (except for a few on testwiki). Surely you could just sort each file and compare them automatically, to see which ones have any usages? This, that and the other (talk) 10:22, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

Yes, I could, but I'm not good at that sort of things and instead I propose that someone improves the script. :) For now I paste here the lines count; in theory all the unused ones should have as many lines as the wikis are, but numbers don't match that well so there may be some mistake.

      733 allwiki
      732 AllWiki
      732 BibleWiki
      732 CorpKnowPedia
      732 DejaNews
      732 FinalEmpire
      732 GotAMac
      732 GreatLakesWiki
      732 JamesHoward
      732 JiniWiki
      732 KerimWiki
      732 Kpopwiki
      732 LugKR
      732 OpenFacts
      732 OSI reference model
      732 PerlNet
      732 SMikipedia
      732 SVGWiki
      732 Swingwiki
      732 Tavi
      732 TESOLTaiwan
      732 TibiaWiki
      732 Turismo
      732 Vinismo
      732 Webisodes
      732 Wikinvest
      732 Wikipaltz
      732 Wikischool
      732 WikiWeet
      734 world66

--Nemo 21:53, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

It's because some of your files haven't been updated since Sept last year, and many new wikis have been opened since then! Can I suggest you re-generate all the older files? (ps. "echei" seems to have one meaningful link here on meta.) This, that and the other (talk) 09:55, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Nah, they only needed some cleanup but I was too lazy to do it properly. Now it should be correct. So they're all unused? I'm not sure I'm doing the queries correctly, mind you. --Nemo 09:29, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

Requests for updates [edit]

This section is for requesting update for an existing interwiki. This could be needed if your site's URL has changed. Please add new entries at the bottom of the section.

BrickWiki [edit]

BrickWiki currently maps to http://lego.wikia.com/index.php?title=$1. The real BrickWiki site, http://www.brickwiki.org, is back up after a three-year absence. Recommend updating the URL. Might also consider adding the prefix "brickipedia" to map to http://lego.wikia.com --ALittleSlow (talk) 15:25, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

We should not be linking to lego.wikia (or any other individual Wikia fansite) at all. A precedent for removing these links exists with Uncyclopedia (which was in this table, and was removed when Wikia moved them from uncyclopedia.org to uncyclopedia.wikia.com over the objections of that wiki's community). A link to whatever.wikia. is duplicative of the main wikia: interwiki and there are thousands of these, mostly worthless. K7L (talk) 03:09, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

Brickwiki is down... again. I don't think it is reliable enough to have an interwiki link to. Ajraddatz (Talk) 20:29, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

BrickWiki is up...again, as http://www.brickwiki.info. Domain name problems. When it's up long enough to be considered reliable, please correct the interwiki link. --98.223.182.116 01:46, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

Looks to be stable now. 66.102.83.61 18:15, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

And still is, so

Done.[6] The other wikia.com URL was only used as temporary fallback for the originally intended destination, so I left aside the considerations on what wikis are worth linking. --Nemo 18:38, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

CKWiss [edit]

Please update entry "CKWiss || http://ck-wissen.de/ckwiki/index.php?title=$1" to: CKWiss || http://www.ck-wissen.de/ckwiki/index.php?title=$1 Thanks! --Friedrich K. (talk) 18:32, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

Is there a need for this? It looks like the first link still appears to be working. Thehelpfulone 13:27, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

Done because it's the domain used on the wiki's main page, but indeed, get them fix their webserver so that it uses only the canonical domain... [7] --Nemo 18:38, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

wmhu [edit]

The proper domain name is wikimedia.hu, not wiki.media.hu (the latter was a temporary domain while we had legal problems with wikimedia.hu). --Tgr (talk) 11:34, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

Done. [8] --Nemo 18:38, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

guildwarswiki [edit]

DCMA	http://www.christian-morgenstern.de/dcma/$1	Should be http://christian-morgenstern.de/dcma/index.php?title=$1
GuildWarsWiki	http://www.wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/$1	Should be http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/$1
PHWiki	http://wiki.pocketheaven.com/$1	path should be http://www.pocketheaven.com/ph/wiki/index.php?title=$1
WurmPedia	http://www.wurmonline.com/wiki/index.php/$1	moved to http://wurmpedia.com/index.php/$1

The URLs as they currently appear in the interwiki table are incorrect and don't work. I've split these out of the main list of broken URLs as the wikis do still exist. 66.102.83.61 16:33, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

Done [9], thanks. So are the wikis in the table above confirmed dead and not available at other URLs? --Nemo 17:45, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

wmph [edit]

It should be http://wikimedia.org.ph/wmph/index.php?title=$1, current one doesn't work (see, per es., wmph:Main Page). I know I can fix it, but I'd like a more senior admin to check. PiRSquared17 (talk) 00:09, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Troubleshooting [edit]

This section is for comments related to problems or corrections with the interwiki map (such as incorrect syntax or entries not functioning). This is not the section to request that a prefix be disabled (see Proposed removals above).

Generic Wikimedia prefix [edit]

With so many sites at wikimedia.org, I'm surprised that there is no generic "wikimedia" prefix, like the "wikia" one. Instead we have (not very useful imho) Wm2005, Wm2006, etc. (Just wanted to make an internal link to stats.wikimedia.org...) -AlexSm 15:12, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

This sounds like a good idea to me, but I think we'll have to create a bug for it. (I don't think the script that updates from this map will understand things like wm => http://$1.wikimedia.org/wiki/$2.) Cbrown1023 talk 21:20, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

bugzilla:24748 Huib talk ^Abigor 19:40, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

"chapter:" interwiki [edit]

I've filed a bug: 24442 - "chapter:" interwiki link doesn't work for non .wikimedia.org chapters wikis. --Nemo 15:11, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

I propose to add wmde: etc. interwiki as a workaround for all wikis listed in bugzilla:24442#c0. --Nemo 14:41, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

Done for all wikis; wmau is the only non-wikimedia.org website which had already been added. --Nemo 11:19, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Since wmno, wmfi, wmpl etc. are also added. Please add "wmnl" to the map as well. Address: http://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/$1 –Krinkle^talk 15:57, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

Done -Barras 16:00, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

There seems to be no interwikis for Wikimedia Pennsylvania (wmpa-us) and Wikimedia Brazil (wmbr). Ruslik 17:34, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

google [edit]

It's impossible to create a link with this interwiki to http://www.google.com/search?q=1+2 ? Liangent 10:43, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

I'm not really sure if links to google are that useful. Every language uses an other language code for google to get the information they want. I don't think we should add this. -Barras 11:23, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

google:foo already works. Liangent is asking if there is a way to search "1 2". πr² (talk · contributions) 21:38, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

[[google:{{urlencode:1+2}}]] -> google:1+2. X! 23:24, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

As πr² said, I'm trying to search "1 2", and after being encoded it becomes "1+2". Liangent 08:03, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

{{urlencode:1+2}} → 1%2B2 πr² (t • c) 15:07, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

So the question is, how to transform "1 2" into "1%202". Or rather, how to use rawurlencode() instead of urlencode(). –Krinkle^talk 14:28, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

Although I didn't knew untill now, this has been recently added to MediaWiki in 1.17 (not yet deployed on Wikimedia sites yet). {{urlencode:string here|PATH}} uses rawurlencode. Example: {{urlencode:1 2|PATH}} => 1%202 (in the future this would expand to "1%202" instead of "1+2"). –Krinkle^talk 14:16, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

I see that there's been a short discussion before, Talk:Interwiki_map/Archives/2009-09#URL_encoding, and there's an open bug (bugzilla:15274) with some recent comments. --Nemo 21:15, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

see: {{URLENCODE:string|foobar}} at mw:Help:Magic words#URL_data and mw:Thread:Project:Support desk/URLENCODE and related functions as encodeURIComponent ‫·‏לערי ריינהארט‏·‏Th‏·‏T‏·‏email me‏·‏‬ 07:31, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Use mw:Extension:InterwikiRegex! Leucosticte (talk) 06:02, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

Is there something we can actually do to the page in its current form to fix this? PiRSquared17 (talk) 21:44, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Git: [edit]

Resolved.

Interwiki prefix to MediaWiki's git repository, which was added at 17:57, 9 April 2012 doesn't work well.

git:core.git

What happens? Isn't it enabled now?--aokomoriuta (talk) 11:27, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

The interwiki table needs to get synced per hand by a sysadmin for new prefixes to work ("A script copies the list below into the database fairly regularly (usually once in several months)") - Hoo man (talk) 17:32, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Ticket: and OTRS: [edit]

Is there any way to control what happens if just ticket: and otrs: are used? wikipedia: redirects you to wikipedia:Main Page, can that be done with these links? Currently, using either link without anything after the colon takes you to an error page - https://ticket.wikimedia.org/otrs/index.pl?Action=AgentTicketZoom&TicketNumber= for the former and https://ticket.wikimedia.org/otrs/index.pl?Action=AgentTicketZoom&TicketID= for the latter. Ideally, both links should take you to https://ticket.wikimedia.org/otrs/index.pl?. – Philosopher ^{Let us reason together.} 09:03, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

No, there's no way. --Nemo 21:55, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Other discussions [edit]

Something to look for: Pretty RFC [edit]

A cool new RFC reader site which does not have much content yet: pretty-rfc. If the author adds all RFCs as he says he will, this will be a good candidate for the RFC interwiki links, as it is superior to IETF's own viewer in all regards. --Tgr (talk) 22:07, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

Table style [edit]

I propose table class to change from class="plainlinks" to class="wikitable sortable plainlinks" which shouldn't break anything. -- とある白い猫 ^chi? 16:45, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

Log [edit]

I think it would be practical to have a log such as Spam blacklist/Log to register additions, removals and changes of interwiki prefixes. Since it's a low traffic page, one per year would be enough. We could start on 2013 if folks agree with. Thanks. -- MarcoAurelio (talk) 22:45, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

I agree and I assumed there already is a log, but apparantly there isn't. Trijnstel_talk 22:53, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

Support Practice exists in multiple places, and for good reason. IMNSHO may as well start now rather than wait, and annual log file seems appropriate. — billinghurst sDrewth 10:32, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

I don't understand the request, why isn't page history enough? Are there administrators not using edit summary? (If yes, let's desysop them!) --Nemo 21:50, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

Clean up? [edit]

Is it time for a clean up of the list? When was the last one? It'd be nice to make sure all the links (a) still work; and (b) are still appropriate for inclusion.

Somewhat related to the section above about logging, an annotated version of this list would be nice so that you can see who added which entry when and why. --MZMcBride (talk) 21:41, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

The last one was about a year ago, when we made everything protocol-relative. There are already some proposed removals above but nobody has checked and fixed the usage of those interwikis yet. --Nemo 13:50, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

Many are 404, "parked" as spam or simply do not resolve. How can there be "usage" worth preserving if the target does not exist? 66.102.83.61 16:36, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

The URL itself is information, while a prefix you don't know the URL translation of is just junk (a mysterious red link). You can help check them at #Broken URLs. --Nemo 17:45, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

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google [edit]

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Something to look for: Pretty RFC [edit]

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