I see. Thank you. Igal
On Jan 15, 2018 22:53, "MZMcBride" <[email protected]> wrote: > יגאל חיטרון wrote: > >Hello, and thank you for your answer. Yes, he likes local aliases indeed. > >They can't be done for all wikis, because it's on wiki own language. About > >templates - we can create them, of course, but it's about wikilinks. Isn't > >there any where to create them, even in phabricator, as namespaces aliases > >were? > > The difference between "{{wikt|foo}}" and "[[wikt:foo]]" is pretty minimal. > > Wikimedia wikis are using > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Interwiki>, but with > "$wgInterwikiViewOnly = true;" set according to > <https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/CommonSettings.php.txt>. This Interwiki > extension supports both local and global prefixes together, but Wikimedia > wikis do not currently have local interwiki prefixes enabled, it looks > like. You could file a Phabricator ticket to change this. > > I imagine you'd run into two objections, though. First, some developers > don't really like interwiki prefixes, given that they're really just a > worse form of URLs. "c:" being a prefix that means > "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/$1"; was mostly intended as a shortcut > for inputting wikitext and there are potentially better ways to support > this functionality without using interwikis. Interwiki links are > basically a rudimentary abstraction layer or namespacing system. > > Second, local interwiki prefixes would mean that when parsing pages, you'd > need to use yet another set of local rules. Yes, we already have namespace > aliases per-wiki (such as "WP:" --> "Wikipedia:" as you mention), but > local interwiki links would be another list to manage and reference when > parsing pages. Local rules like this can also make using content between > wikis more difficult, since copying and pasting can become less trivial. > > MZMcBride > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
