https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54604
--- Comment #6 from Quiddity <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #5) > My gut says remove them all esp. the https links, as @Isarra mentioned the > only > one that seems to make any real sense is links that point to files, like > PDFs, > however internal (Commons) links have their own viewer. External PDFs seem > like the only file that marking their links seems relevant in any way. Most > modern browsers have built-in PDF renders so even the days of PDFs being > treated special is soon becoming irrelevant. > Isarra mentioned mailto and IRC links too, which I'd agree are instances where the icon is useful. The audio/video icons are also good to have, per principle of least astonishment (eg, someone adds a link to a loud .wav file into an article's external links, and someone else in a quiet office clicks on it). They also help editors to notice that these uncommon link types are present, and hence to check whether they're really suitable/wanted or not. (If I see an audio-file icon, I often click it to check for spam/vandalism). > My recommendation would be to remove all special formatting other than > wikilinks vs external links. > > If we could determine and mark wikilinks that are to other sister projects, > I'd recommend they be treated as regular wikilinks as well. Interwiki links (everything in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Interwiki_map ) are already styled with a slightly-lighter blue, via class "extiw" (external interwiki) located in https://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/skins/common/commonElements.css?view=markup and skins/monobook/main.css -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
