On 16/01/14 22:06, This, that and the other wrote: > "Most well-established and active wikis should have interwiki > prefixes, regardless of whether or not they are using MediaWiki > software. > Sites that are not wikis may be acceptable in some cases, > particularly if they are very commonly linked to (e.g. Google, > OEIS)."
I think the interwiki map should be retired. I think broken links should be removed from it, and no new wikis should be added. Interwiki prefixes, local namespaces and article titles containing a plain colon intractably conflict. Every time you add a new interwiki prefix, main namespace articles which had that prefix in their title become inaccessible and need to be recovered with a maintenance script. There is a very good, standardised system for linking to arbitrary remote wikis -- URLs. URLs have the advantage of not sharing a namespace with local article titles. Even the introduction of new WMF-to-WMF interwiki prefixes has caused the breakage of large numbers of article titles. I can see that is convenient, but I think it should be replaced even in that use case. UI convenience, link styling and rel=nofollow can be dealt with in other ways. -- Tim Starling _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
