Wiki converts external wikipedia links to wikibooks

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Not sure where to report this, but when you put an external link to Wikipedia using the graphical edit interface (not editing the source directly), like for example to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mani_stone, it will get converted to a wikibooks link, like this:

[[wikibooks:Mani_stone|Mani stones]]

That is obviously quite unexpected. What is more tricky, this only happens once you hit save - in a preview, it is displayed correctly.

I suspect there might be some empty wikibooks link in the wiki due to this.

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Do you mean “in a changeset comment”, “in a changeset discussion” or something else?

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Directly in the wiki text, when editing an article. I think it happened to me when I copied a different link and edited it by pasting a wikipedia link into it.

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Thanks for reporting the issue:

As a workaround, you can insert a link to the page title w:Mani stone, which should turn into a Wikipedia interwiki link.

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