Can we get global bots to do it? I know it's not part of their policy, maybe an exception or a discussion about it?
Best On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 10:02 PM Legoktm <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > With this weeks deployment of MediaWiki to Wikimedia sites, you'll > notice that magic links[1] now add tracking categories to identify their > usage. > > As discussed in an RfC, magic links have some problems[2], and we would > like to phase them out with interwiki links and templates instead. > Things like VisualEditor will still specially handle ISBN/RFC/PMID, but > generate the wikitext link format. > > I would like to recruit the help of bot authors and operators in > updating their wikis to not use magic links. Is there anyone in your > community who would be interested? > > [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Magic_links > [2] > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Future_of_magic_links#Problem > > Thanks, > -- Kunal / Legoktm > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors >
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