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Twitter link actually getting blocked by some browser extension.

Hello,

For a couple of years I have been maintaining a mediawiki-based wiki as a content editor. It has been updated recently to mediawiki version 1.26.3, and I discovered that the wikilinks (or internal links) to our own 'Twitter'-page have stopped working (e.g. [ [ Twitter ] ]). I just tested this in your own sandbox, and there it also doesn't show up.

What gives? I guess this behaviour is caused by giving the term 'twitter' a special status as an immediate redirection to a twitter account.

My questions: a) How can this behaviour be circumvented? Renaming our own Twitter-page is not negotiable. b) Is there a configuration setting that must be altered? If so, how? I'm not the sysadmin, and I must give him very specific instructions. c) Are there other special keywords now to consider?

If all else fails I'm more than willing to step in and butcher the source code, but I'd rather keep my current life PHP-free, peaceful, and civil.

Thanks in advance

I forgot to mention that I searched your site and the past help-topics, of course.

MediaWiki 1.26 is unsupported, we recommend upgrading.

Since your own current sandbox exhibits <em>same behaviour</em> I'm afraid that upgrading won't make the problem go away.

The upgrade recommendation is partially for security reasons too.

Coming to your query, how exactly did you set these "internal links"? Did you set them in Special:Interwiki or something?

I mean internal wikilinks, like this: A programmer is a person who converts Coca-Cola into code. When a programmer is tired, he uses Twitter for relaxation.

Note the missing twitter between 'uses' and 'for' in your own current mediawiki.

Apologies, but I'm still unable to understand.

What missing twitter? Isn't it being shown "between 'uses' and 'for'"?

If I use a WikiWord, like this WikiWord, then a link to another wiki page is created. If the page exists, the word is by default coloured blue. If it doesn't, it is coloured red. This is how MediaWiki works since about the beginning. However, if I use 'Twitter' (or 'twitter') as a wiki word, it doesn't show up at all. Example given: Twitter See? The word 'twitter' isn't showing up at all. Now this happens in MediaWiki version 1.26.3, but also here at www.mediawiki.org at the moment, running at whatever version you do.

My questions remain: Is this on purpose? If it is: how to circumvent it? If not, I've discovered a bug and I claim my 15 minutes of internet fame ;)

Blue coloured 'twitter' is showing up on my end.

If I have understood your problem correctly, try disabling all browser plugins or opening your Wiki in a different browser.

(Checking with other browsers, phones, etc)<br />

I'll be darned! It's ad blocker or one of its extensions, which I have running by default everywhere I can. I would have never thought of that. I'm very sorry for your wasted time. I'll look at my ad blocker settings. Thanks all for your patience.