Because if you prefix a wikilink link with a single colon it always works as a link regardless of namespace. And until the recent MediaWiki change two colons worked too, so if a template wants to accept both prefixed and unprefixed links, it can append a single colon to the front.
I see that the linter has been deployed, but it doesn't seem to be picking up errors that result from template transcriptions, e.g. https://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A9%A9 (Neither this page nor the template the caused the error has been changed since the MediaWiki breaking change.)
https://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:LintErrors/multi-colon-escape shows no matches.
On 29 September 2017 at 22:52, Arlo Breault abreault@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Sep 29, 2017, at 5:17 PM, Bartosz Dziewoński matma.rex@gmail.com
wrote:
might be prefixed with a colon
Is there a reason why it only *might* be?
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