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Enabling forward from translatewiki.net on Special:Interwiki

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Elisa3626 (talkcontribs)

Hello. Can somebody enable forward for translatewiki.net on Special:Interwiki? I will use that for shortest way instead of making external link. Thank you.

PerfektesChaos (talkcontribs)
Elisa3626 (talkcontribs)

That's not what I was asked for. I will use the interwiki link, like [[mw:translatewiki:Page name]]. I will use that interwiki for outside of Wikimedia wikis.

Shirayuki (talkcontribs)
Elisa3626 (talkcontribs)

Okay Shirayuki. Thanks.

PerfektesChaos (talkcontribs)

That use case does not seem meaningful to me.

There is nothing like a redirect of redirects of interwiki sites.

With internal sites it may be constructed something like https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/en:Main_Page but translatewiki is external and must not be covered by a WMF domain for security reasons. Therefore it does not work to resolve https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/translatewiki:Main_Page

If you are embedding that link from outside WMF, the site which has knowledge of [[mw:]] does need to learn [[translatewiki:]] by its own Special:Interwiki.

The only solution within this wiki here would work by creating a page and transclude Template:Soft redirect inside but I am afraid nobody will do that.

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