https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60135
MZMcBride <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |UNCONFIRMED Ever confirmed|1 |0 --- Comment #8 from MZMcBride <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Nathan Larson from comment #0) > Currently, people are reluctant to get rid of obsolete interwiki prefixes, > because of historical reasons (i.e. they are still used in a lot of pages). I don't think this is a sufficient problem statement. > A maintenance script should be created to go through the iwlinks table, find > all the instances in which the interwiki is used, and edit the pages to > replace those interwiki links with external links. You're proposing a solution to a problem that hasn't been clearly defined. Interwiki links are a very old and established part of wikitext. They're used on millions of pages and in many other places (for example, [[mw:foo]] is frequently used in this bug tracker). Deprecating interwiki links, if that's decided, might mean telling people to not use them, but it probably wouldn't include forcibly removing the markup, I don't think. -- 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
