Last modified: 2014-07-28 16:50:31 UTC
Intention: I was creating a crosswiki link in an article, from [[en:Yukos]] to [[ru:Сергей Муравленко]], a relevant article in ruwiki that doesn't have an enwiki equivalent. (It probably should, but that's another day's issue...) I added this markup to the section "History" of [[en:Yukos]]: >> [[ru:Сергей Муравленко|Sergei Muravlenko]] (Cyrillic: Сергей Муравленко), the former General Director of [...] I added the link this way to keep the link in Cyrillic, so it would be is easily understood and meaningful to other editors (especially as it's cross-wiki and non-English). The alternative of a long string of encoded Unicode wouldn't be helping anyone. I was expecting the usual - display text in English, and a hyperlink to the article "Сергей Муравленко" in ruwiki. Instead it didn't render at all (entire element omitted from visible Wiki article render) Steps to Reproduce: see above Actual Results: see above Expected Results: see above Reproducible: Always
That's language link syntax, prepend with a column for linking, i.e. [[:ru:Сергей Муравленко]].
Links of the form [[<language code>:<anything>]] are considered to be language links and placed in the sidebar – this is what happened in your edit. Look at the sidebar here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yukos&oldid=618838445 – the link "Русский" points to https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Сергей_Муравленко . You can suppress this behavior (and create a regular link) by typing [[:<language code>:<anything>]] (note the additional leading colon). Thank you for the bug report!
