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MISC
Hi. I've moved this shortcut-redirect to WB:MISC because it conflicts with the interwiki prefix for Wikibooks. I hope nobody minds. PiRSquared17 (discuss • contribs) 03:50, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi. I don't mind. --Glaisher (discuss • contribs) 03:52, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
 * The correct link is T2955. Please don't crucify me for using GR/GS rights, I wasn't really thinking about it. I'm sorry. Anyway, WB: is the normal shortcut so I think it was correct. PiRSquared17 (discuss • contribs) 03:55, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
 * The move looks good to me and I don't have any issue with you utilizing GS for this. Thanks! --Az1568 (discuss • contribs) 04:09, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
 * @PiRSquared17: Why does the phabricator thing mention cross-wiki templates? I thought cross-wiki templates were on the list of no-way-in-hell features, that would never be allowed on wikimedia.  (Which has nothing to do with the single-letter project prefixes, which it'd be nice to have go to mainspace in their own project so wikilinks wouldn't have to be rewritten when imported.)  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 10:45, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
 * @Pi zero: I don't think they're actually going to enable cross-wiki templates any time soon, but this bug would need to be fixed before they hypothetically did. More practically, I think the new global user page feature might be affected, but I'm not sure. In any case, should work like  does on Wikipedia. PiRSquared17 (discuss • contribs) 17:30, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
 * @PiRSquared17: I agree that  should work that way here,   on wikiversity, and so on.  It's always been a pain that the syntax for wikilinks to another project works everywhere except on the target project.  I was just surprised, and perhaps a bit disturbed, to hear talk of cross-wiki templates.  The Foundation can be highly myopic, and I could just picture them forcing al the non-Wikipedian sisters to accept Wikipedia's definitions of templates that have important local variations in their definitions.  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 18:12, 19 February 2015 (UTC)