https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10237

--- Comment #10 from [email protected] 2010-03-21 04:58:07 UTC ---
I recommend that in addition to the interwiki #ifexist parser function, we also
implement existence checking of interwiki links such as [[m:foo]], and provide
for red/blue link coloration depending on the result of that check. Red links
can be useful, in that they tempt users to create a new article. Therefore, in
some cases, we don't want to have a template causing an interwiki link to
appear as unclickable text, or not to appear if the page doesn't exist; we just
want the link to be red.

We can implement such coloration via #ifexist as described at
[[w:Wikipedia:Link_color#Making_links_appear_a_different_color_for_everyone]],
but it would save keystrokes and simplify the markup just to have
existence-detecting interwiki links. Presumably we'll use the LinkEnd or
LinkBegin hook for this.

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