Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-9605025-20190906212716/@comment-5811199-20190906234744

Hi Andrewds1021,

The main change that is making differences in behaviour is from the www.wikia.com change and HTTPS changes - www.wikia.com is no longer a wiki, and handles redirects differently now. A fair amount of redirect methods used www.wikia.com as a starting point.

The best documentation to look into interwiki links (via wikitext, not URL manipulation) is our Help:Improving help pages/linktest page, which takes into account help pages as well.

As for your examples, I think it's best to go through each one (keeping in mind wikitext vs URL):
 * : Fixed, this should work now, if it didn't work before (transformers-legends).
 * : Still exists and works (wp:Tea).
 * Others that also work:
 * : w:c:transformers-legends
 * : Tea

Note that the following are URL links, not wikitext links:
 * : This link does not work and this is expected. It doesn't work on Wikipedia, for example - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wikia:test. It is considered "an attempt to load a URL pointing to a "non-local" interwiki page". Wikia has a workaround to this, which is to drop the  section (this is meant to be bad - Wikia should never have a URL link that automatically redirects to an external link).
 * : Marvel is a local interwiki page, hence it works.
 * : Fixed now - it works now.
 * : From above, fixed now - it works now.
 * : Still works.
 * : This one is beyond admin control. There is a workaround to this, whichi is to drop the  section, e.g. https://community.fandom.com/w:c:transformers-legends?action=edit
 * : This one is beyond admin control. There is a workaround to this, whichi is to drop the  section, e.g. https://community.fandom.com/w:Help:Infoboxes
 * : This is a strange one, since I don't understand why you'd link to marveldatabase on marvel or w: on community, but again it is beyond admin control and can be worked around by dropping the.