2012/8/22 Daniel Friesen <[email protected]>: > On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:33:59 -0700, bawolff <[email protected]> wrote: >> I would really like to see the interlanguage stuff re-done. Preferably >> with >> a means to configure multiple types of interwikis-that-go-in-sidebars >> so people could have interproject links and what not. Commons might >> have a section (portlet) in the sidebar for each of the sister >> projects, and each section >> contains the language links for that project
> That's why we turned the language link boolean into a string ;) > > Also part of my skinning rewrite plans (if I ever get back to that) actually > touched the area of letting us have more than just language links in the > sidebar/wherever... > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Dantman/Skinning_system/Link_lists_rewrite > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Dantman/Skinning_system/Customization#Alternative_page_links > > That said there are some other parts of interlanguage I'd like changed too. > It would be nice if we could drop the in-wiki [[en:Foo]] for a proper > interface and have templates use something like {{#languagelink:en:Foo}}. Whereas I see that that would be nice in the long run, due to its possible effect on the existing text in the Wikipedias I would strongly suggest to not make that a blocker for Wikidata. My assumption would be: once we have Wikidata running, the language links in the Wikipedias will drop considerably, upon which a change to the syntax of interlanguage links would become much more feasible. Changing the syntax for language links just so we can externalize them to Wikidata is not the way I would suggest to go. Does this sound reasonable? Cheers, Denny _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
