I'll add a bit more to my question, perhaps someone can help figure this out.
My understanding is that to get an interwiki link, you form it like so:
[[MetaWikiPedia:Help:Contents]]
The first section before the colon is a meta link as defined in the interwiki db table. For example:
mysql> select * from interwiki where iw_url like '%meta%'; +---------------+-----------------------------------------------------------+----------+----------+ | iw_prefix | iw_url | iw_local | iw_trans | +---------------+-----------------------------------------------------------+----------+----------+ | JargonFile | http://sunir.org/apps/meta.pl?wiki=JargonFile&redirect=$1 | 0 | 0 | | MetaWiki | http://sunir.org/apps/meta.pl?$1 | 0 | 0 | | MetaWikiPedia | http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1 | 0 | 0 | +---------------+-----------------------------------------------------------+----------+----------+ 3 rows in set (0.00 sec)
The stuff after the colon is the path to the page you want on the remote wiki.
None of this seems to work on my installation - if I make a link like this in a page:
[[Metawikipedia:Help:Contents]]
It just tries to make a local page with that name.
What am I missing here? I have not touched any interwiki settings in LocalSettings.php.
Thanks,
Charles
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Charles Sprickman wrote:
Hi all,
I've tried following these instructions over and over again and I end up with Help that doesn't seem to link anywhere:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Installation-Software_Configuration#Inte...:
Running version 1.6.10, just installed and imported data from a phpwiki.
I don't have much data to share, but the permanent "Help" link on the left points to http://mysite.com/mediawiki/index.php/Help:Contents which is a non-existent page even after following the above instructions.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Charles
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