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Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
# Recent changes 'changes' => 'צÁßôÍ×', 'recentchanges' => '¾Þ¬ צÁßôÍ×', 'recentchanges-url' => '¤äµÛ:Recentchanges', 'recentchangestext' => '¦ÅÅ¢ ¯ ¤ª×× ¾Þ¬ צÁßôÍ× ¯ wiki ¾¿ ª¯ ¤ÆÓÛ.',
"recentchanges-url" and other utrl tags end up mapping to their translated constructs as the internal representation. i.e. recentchanges-url ends up rendering as "¾Þ¬ צÁßôÍ×-url" as the page link INTERNALLY rather than "recentchanges-url", even though the internal variable is named something else. This causes the page linking to "¤äµÛ:Recentchanges" to end up pointing to a non-existent link. All of the -url variables end up getting corrupted this way.
It sounds to me like your problem is that you're running some sort of automated translation on the *contents* of MediaWiki:Sidebar as though it were article text, thus producing a useless, corrupt entry.
In other words, the problem is not that you imported MediaWiki:Sidebar; the problem is that you imported a version of MediaWiki:Sidebar which is meaningless. "Garbage in, garbage out." :)
Can you confirm?
I would recommend excluding such software configuration pages from your translation tool.
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