https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15607
--- Comment #64 from Tim Starling <[email protected]> 2011-03-24 23:47:34 UTC --- (In reply to comment #62) > 1) What's the proposed name of the central repository? I would suggest > something like data.wikimedia.org so we can potentially expand it in future > for > other cross-project data sharing. I'm not aware of any proposal. The current software makes it necessary to have one wiki per second-level domain. > 2) Would this be used for the non-article namespace? The software won't restrict it to the main namespace, so yes, I imagine it will be used for other namespaces. > 3) Would this be used for InterProject links? No. > Potentially any link list could > point to any Wikimedia project, and the script could filter it down to > something appropriate. For example, if the link lists includes all the > Wikipedia articles for "Dog", plus all the Wiktionary entries, on the English > Wikipedia it could pull the Wikipedia interlanguage links + English > Wiktionary, > on the German Wikipedia it could pull the German Wikipedia interlanguage links > + German Wiktionary, etc. Sure, anything's possible, with sufficient software development resources. But such resources have not materialised, so I'm just looking to enable this extension with a few minor tweaks. If we need to have a stopgap solution, I'd prefer it to be implemented in a way that doesn't lock us in to a particular architecture going forward. We are talking about having a special syntax for interlanguage link references in articles: {{#interlanguage: Pied Currawong}} As long as we stick with something simple like that, and don't expose implementation details to the users on the content wikis, then we can easily change the data source in the future. In particular, I don't want to see: {{#interlanguage: Wikipedia-Interlanguage:Pied Currawong}} > 4) Finally, on the user experience side, in addition to formatting the links > in > the content area (see > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/A_newer_look_at_the_interlanguage_link/Central_wiki_style_straw_poll > ), I think we'll need to think about how you access the link list in the first > place. IMO an edit link in the sidebar that pops up an editing interface on > the > local wiki would be preferable to sending people to an external site. Sure, it's possible, if resources can be allocated for it. Note that there will be a need for policy, review and access control. Nothing is ever simple on a wiki. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- 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
