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

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