For some reason, the default interwiki table doesn't
include an entry for Wikipedia. I can think of two
possible reasons for this:
* The table is a snapshot of the one used for WP,
which never needs to refer to itself, so the
entry was simply omitted.
* The Powers That Be don't _want_ it to be easy
to link to WP (?!?).
Can someone clarify this for me? And, if it's just
an accidental omission, could someone find a way to
include an entry? I can't be the only MW user who
likes to link to WP...
-r
P.S. After getting a clue from Rob, I used the following
MySQL to insert a row in my own database:
% mysql -uroot -p
Password: ...
mysql> use mediawikidb_rdm
mysql> INSERT INTO rdm_interwiki
VALUES ('wp', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1', 0, 0);
mysql>^D
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