https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62747

--- Comment #8 from Sage Ross <[email protected]> ---
I would say it's definitely important to users to know when a link will take
them out of (that language version of) Wikipedia. I'm pretty savvy about how
these here wikis work, and I was still very confused when a seemingly internal
link took me to a page in another language. Styling interwiki links as internal
links is definitely the wrong way to go.

As for giving them their own style (as in the desktop view) instead of just
styling them like other external links, this is probably only understandable by
users who regularly use non-article pages and navigate between wikis... but for
them (people like me), the slightly lighter blue of an interwiki link is
instantly recognizable.

Interwiki links within articles are only a small minority of links, but it's a
non-trivial amount nonetheless. Inline links to wiktionary are among the more
common use cases.

When we're talking about pages outside of mainspace as well, it becomes even
more important to be able to differentiate... especially because (to a much
greater degree than on desktop) you could navigate to another wiki without even
realizing it. There's no new-and-different icon (or visible url, depending on
the browser) at the top to let you know that you're all of a suddent on a
different wiki.

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