Saving a page deletes all interlanguage links on that page

[evan]

For MediaWiki, you can define certain kinds of interwiki links that won't show up in the page content. They instead get put on the "other languages" menu (by default). This is for links to translations of the article on another related wiki.

The code for an interlanguage link is identical to an interwiki link. The only way to tell one from the other is that a) the interlanguage link has "iw_local = 1" on its interwiki table row, and b) the prefix of the interlanguage link is a key in the language names array (see languages/Names.php). A common example might be, on the page "Dog", "[[fr:chien]]" to make an interlanguage link to the French version of the page.

As a first step, it would be nice to at least preserve this markup so it doesn't get lost when someone edits the page. (I'll file a separate ticket for allowing users to add, edit and delete interlanguage links.)

[w.olchawa]

Possibly a DUP of #1543

[w.olchawa]

I'm marking #1543 and also this one as DUP of #1883. It seems it should be placed in a new Feature

[evan]

I strongly request that you don't make it a dupe of 1883.

#1883 is a nice-to-have feature; #1882 is a bug that deletes important information from existing pages.

Making the 1883 feature would, probably, fix this bug; however, there are other ways to do it (like caching the code that's lost in an HTML comment or somewhere on the $SESSION variable or something).

A nice UI is a lower priority than not slicing off existing, semantic data in the page.

[w.olchawa]

You're right Evan. I'll reopen this ticket due to your suggestions.

[Joe Beaudoin Jr.]

I agree. The markup needs to be preserved, at least... I would think that this shouldn't be that difficult.

[Joe Beaudoin Jr.]

Ok, an update... You can preserve the formatting by merely encasing your interwiki and interlanguage links in "<noinclude></noinclude>".

Of course, that's a stopgap solution, but it works. :)

[wwalc]

Fixed with [1851]. Interlanguage links are now appended at the bottom of the page.

Proposal of better handling of interlanguage links is described in ticket #1883.

[wwalc]

aditional fix for [[:de:links]] [1859].