diff --git a/.github/workflows/smoke.yml b/.github/workflows/smoke.yml
index 42eaf2a26..e3d21d849 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/smoke.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/smoke.yml
@@ -272,33 +272,27 @@ jobs:
             exit 1
           fi
 
-          # The two ends of the sequence get one link rather than two, which the old shape could not
-          # spell: a lone argument was the next step, so the last page had no way to say it had none.
-          #
-          # Matched on the div rather than the class name. TemplateStyles inlines prevnext/styles.css
-          # into every page that has a row, so both class names appear in the page's own stylesheet
-          # whether or not either link was rendered -- which is what the first draft of this check
-          # tripped over.
-          if grep -q 'class="wikven-prevnext-prev"' dist/Why_wikitext.html; then
-            echo "::error::Why wikitext heads the sequence and should have no previous link"
-            exit 1
-          fi
-          if grep -q 'class="wikven-prevnext-next"' dist/Licenses.html; then
-            echo "::error::Licenses ends the sequence and should have no next link"
-            exit 1
-          fi
-
           # A prevnext link is labelled with the target page's own title, so on a translated page it
           # must carry the translated one. The label is not in the calling page's source: the call
           # sits outside the translate tags and passes a page name, and the template reads the
           # title from the target's own title unit, which is the whole point -- a label restated in
           # the caller would be a second copy of a string that is already translated once.
           # Searching/ko is the fixture, and the expectation is read from the source rather than
-          # written here: any Korean at all would pass a string pinned in this file.
+          # written here: any Korean at all would pass a string pinned in this file. Which page
+          # follows Searching is read from the sidebar for the same reason the row itself is --
+          # naming it here would make this a check of a particular order rather than of the label.
+          following=$(sed -n 's@^\*\* *Special:MyLanguage/\([^|]*\).*@\1@p' 'docs/MediaWiki:Sidebar.wikitext' \
+            | awk '/^Searching$/ { if ((getline) > 0) print; exit }')
+          # Checked before the file is read: awk on docs//ko.wikitext would abort the step with its
+          # own error, which says nothing about the sidebar being what went wrong.
+          if [ -z "$following" ]; then
+            echo "::error::MediaWiki:Sidebar names no page after Searching, so this check has no pair to make"
+            exit 1
+          fi
           want=$(awk '/^<!--T:title[ -]/ { found = 1; next } found && NF { print; exit }' \
-            docs/Translating/ko.wikitext)
+            "docs/$following/ko.wikitext")
           if [ -z "$want" ]; then
-            echo "::error::docs/Translating/ko.wikitext has no translated title to expect"
+            echo "::error::docs/$following/ko.wikitext has no translated title to expect"
             exit 1
           fi
           # Newlines are flattened before the block is read: the template writes its markup over
@@ -310,7 +304,7 @@ jobs:
           case "$shown" in
             *"$want"*) ;;
             *)
-              echo "::error::Searching/ko's prevnext does not show Translating's Korean title ($want)"
+              echo "::error::Searching/ko's prevnext does not show $following's Korean title ($want)"
               echo "$shown"
               exit 1
               ;;
diff --git a/docs/MediaWiki:Sidebar.wikitext b/docs/MediaWiki:Sidebar.wikitext
index bdf50888e..2cb0082ed 100644
--- a/docs/MediaWiki:Sidebar.wikitext
+++ b/docs/MediaWiki:Sidebar.wikitext
@@ -5,25 +5,25 @@
      offers its own Home besides -- fillMinervaMenu.php drops an entry leading there for that
      reason, so this section only ever reached the two skins that show the logo anyway. -->
 * sidebar-docs
-** Special:MyLanguage/Why wikitext|sidebar-why-wikitext
 ** Special:MyLanguage/Installation|sidebar-installation
 ** Special:MyLanguage/Getting Started|sidebar-getting-started
 ** Special:MyLanguage/Pages|sidebar-pages
-** Special:MyLanguage/Editing sidebar|sidebar-editing-sidebar
 ** Special:MyLanguage/Images|sidebar-images
 ** Special:MyLanguage/Skins|sidebar-skins
+** Special:MyLanguage/Searching|sidebar-searching
 ** Special:MyLanguage/Extensions|sidebar-extensions
 ** Special:MyLanguage/Lua modules|sidebar-lua-modules
 ** Special:MyLanguage/JavaScript|sidebar-javascript
-** Special:MyLanguage/Searching|sidebar-searching
 ** Special:MyLanguage/Translating|sidebar-translating
+** Special:MyLanguage/Editing sidebar|sidebar-editing-sidebar
 ** Special:MyLanguage/Deploying|sidebar-deploying
 ** Special:MyLanguage/Troubleshooting|sidebar-troubleshooting
 * sidebar-references
 ** Special:MyLanguage/Limitations|sidebar-limitations
+** Special:MyLanguage/Why wikitext|sidebar-why-wikitext
 ** Special:MyLanguage/Configuration|sidebar-configuration
 ** Special:MyLanguage/Standalone binary|sidebar-standalone-binary
 ** Special:MyLanguage/Commands|sidebar-commands
-** Special:MyLanguage/Development|sidebar-development
 ** Special:MyLanguage/Writing an extension|sidebar-writing-an-extension
+** Special:MyLanguage/Development|sidebar-development
 ** Special:MyLanguage/Licenses|sidebar-licenses