2009/1/6 Marco Schuster <[email protected]>: > On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Lars Aronsson <[email protected]> wrote: >> In the longer term, we need to redesign the interwiki links into a >> centralized system, that can be maintained. I think the way to do >> this is to use Wikimedia Commons. Instead of copying all the >> interwiki links to every language of Wikipedia, it should be >> enough to add {{commons|Category:Writers from Austria}}, and the >> rest should happen automatically. > > Commons has enough to do with keeping metafiles up to date, they'd be > crashed by also having to maintain IW links. I'd propose a new wiki, > to which editors have to apply to get write access so that vandalism > in this critical part is prevented.
The technology already exists: * http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/A_newer_look_at_the_interlanguage_link But it is not enabled yet: * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15607 -- Amir Elisha Aharoni heb: http://haharoni.wordpress.com | eng: http://aharoni.wordpress.com cat: http://aprenent.wordpress.com | rus: http://amire80.livejournal.com "We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace." - T. Moore _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
