diff --git a/api/ParserService.js b/api/ParserService.js
index 7adc21a506..c4bc988ca4 100644
--- a/api/ParserService.js
+++ b/api/ParserService.js
@@ -50,10 +50,6 @@ env.addInterwiki( 'mw', 'http://www.mediawiki.org/w' );
 // For development:
 //env.addInterwiki( 'localhost', 'http://localhost/w' );
 
-// add localhost and make it the default
-env.addInterwiki( 'localhost', 'http://localhost/mediawiki' );
-defaultInterwiki = 'localhost';
-
 var parserPipelineFactory = new ParserPipelineFactory( env );
 //var parser = parserPipelineFactory.makePipeline( 'text/x-mediawiki/full' );