https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708

Aaron Adrignola <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #41 from Aaron Adrignola <[email protected]> 2011-07-14 
14:11:46 UTC ---
At Wikibooks there are interproject links to Wikipedia galore.  While it's true
that we discourage them in order to have all content defined in-text, they are
still extensively used.  And there are many [[w:|Wikipedia]] links simply to
link to Wikipedia.  And Wikibooks is not a dictionary, so words may be linked
to Wiktionary.  Wikiversity was split off, so some concepts may be linked to
there.

Interproject links are not used at Wikibooks in a one-to-one ratio with the
pages and do not match local page content to the equivalent at the other
project. The suggested implementation would be a disaster at Wikibooks.  Only
Wikipedia takes the hardcore stance that "outside" links must all be in an
external links section and isolates itself from the other projects.

Unless you run a bot to replace [[w:blah|blah]] with [[:w:blah|blah]] on every
page of every wiki, the sidebar links would be completely incorrect.  At least
the suggested implementation wouldn't make them disappear like current
interlanguage links, but that's of little consolation.

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