https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55355
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Bug ID: 55355
Summary: Wikivoyage sidebar-link extensions (RelatedArticles,
RelatedSites, Insider) should be consolidated as one
flexible extension
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: master
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: RelatedArticles
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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[[mw:Extension:RelatedSites]], [[mw:Extension:RelatedArticles]] and
[[mw:Extension:Insider]] all perform largely the same function - they take a
user-supplied link from the article wiki text and stuff it into the sidebar.
They differ in how the wiki link is labelled and which section the link is
placed on the sidebar:
[[mw:Extension:Insider]] is used by [[voy:template:hasDocent]] to add user page
links to a sidebar section named "Destination Docents", the displayed text is
the target username without the namespace - see [[voy:Buffalo]] as an example.
Multiple links are permitted. An "About docents" link at the end of the list
points to [[voy:Wikivoyage:What is a docent?]]
[[mw:Extension:RelatedArticles]] is used by [[voy:Template:Related]] to add
article page links to a sidebar section named "Related pages". The displayed
text is the link target; namespace prefixes are not hidden or removed. Multiple
links are permitted. There is no added "About..." link. These are used to make
links like [[voy:Across Canada by train]] (itinerary) to "Rail travel in
Canada" (a related travel topic).
[[mw:Extension:RelatedSites]] is used by the wikipedia: and dmoz: interwiki
links. It adds interwiki links to a sidebar section named "Related sites". The
displayed text is the name of the targeted site (usually "Wikipedia") without
the name of the target page. Multiple links to the same site are not permitted
- almost as if a mistaken assumption had been made that there is a 1:1
correspondence between Wikipedia and Wikivoyage articles. If one Wikivoyage
topic (usually a city or region) corresponds to multiple WP topics, this
breaks. RelatedSites is not a tag function. The list of interwikis to be pushed
to the sidebar is in a LocalSettings.php - like site settings file and
therefore not configurable without control of the servers. The names of the
target sites are in $wgExtraLanguages - an ugly kludge as "Wikipedia" appears
among options for user interface language in [[voy:special:preferences]].
Linking [[wikipedia: as if it were a language to be relegated to the sidebar
requires that an inline link be [[w: or [[:wikipedia:
Of the three, RelatedArticles looks like the most viable candidate to be
extended to replace the other two. It's currently a tag function,
<includeonly>{{#related:{{{1}}}}}</includeonly>. Its one parameter is the
target page name; it assumed the display name matches the link target (with
prefix displayed) and assumes the link goes in the "Related pages" section on
the sidebar.
What if these restrictions were removed by adding two optional paramaters, ie:
{{#related: w:Paris, France | Related sites | Wikipedia }} to tell it to link
[[Paris, France]] in the "Related sites" section labelled as "Wikipedia"? That
would render the kludgy RelatedSites extension redundant. Similarly,
{{#related: user:A. Wikitraveller | Destination Docents | A. Wikitraveller }}
would replace the Insider extension. There would need to be duplicate link
checking to ensure {{#related: Wikivoyage:What is a docent? | Destination
Docents | About docents }} only gets linked once, but by allowing the section
and link text to be specified in the #related: tag, one extension could do the
work of three without hard-coding sidebar section names and with more
flexibility.
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