[Mediawiki-l] Help with Interwiki

[Jamie Bliss]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 19:23:54 -0500, Aldon Hynes <ahynes1 at optonline.net> wrote:
> I have a Media Wiki site set up http://testwiki.smartcampaigns.com
> 
> MediaWiki (http://wikipedia.sf.net/): 1.3.9
> PHP (http://www.php.net/): 4.3.10 (cgi)
> MySQL (http://www.mysql.com/): 4.0.22-standard
> 
> I have interwiki working, sort of.  I have the 108 entries from the
> interwiki.sql script loaded and at least checking a few of them out, they
> all seem to be working.
> 
> So, I thought, I should be able to simply add another record to the table
> and it should work as well, right?

This works for me.

> So I went into SQL and executed:
> insert into interwiki values ("id", "http://public.2idi.com/=$1", 0);
> 
> When I check the table, sure enough, the row is in there.
> 
> However, when I attempt to use an interwiki link
> e.g.
> [[id:Aldon.Hynes]]
> 
> nothing shows up.
> 
> (Take a look at
> http://testwiki.smartcampaigns.com/index.php?title=Aldon_Hynes ) for an
> example.  The link to AbbeNormal comes in okay, but the link to id doesn't
> come in at all.

Indeed. It's not even in the HTML.

> My guess is that I am missing a step, but I haven't been able to figure it
> out.  Can anyone tell me what I'm missing?

I don't think your missing anything. ID is the language code for
Indonesia. I think it's interpretting it that way instead of an
InterWiki link. Change the name to something else (like "idi" or
"2idi").

-- Jamie
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