[WikiEN-l] Sister project templates for non-sister projects

Wed Apr 27 11:46:39 UTC 2005

--- Erik Moeller <erik_moeller at gmx.de> wrote:
> It's difficult enough to explain to people the difference between wikis, 
> Wikimedia, and MediaWiki. We're not helping our case by using identical 
> templates for outside projects. In the case of Wikicities, we especially 
> want to avoid this confusion, as Wikicities is a for-profit, and 
> Wikimedia is a non-profit.

I agree completely agree and reverted the Wikitravel template back to the
non-box version. The template now creates a standardized external link again.
IIRC, that change is what saved this template from deletion before. I just
tried to do this with the Wikicities template, but failed. Could somebody else
hack that? 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template%3AWikicities

> My proposal would be to list *free content* websites somewhat 
> differently from normal ones, but to not give them a full-blown "sister 
> project" type box. For example:
> 
> == External links ==
>   ____________________________________
> | [[Free content]] links:            |
> | * Wikitravel                       |
> | * Wikicities                       |
> |____________________________________|

Supporting free content is fine, but whatever is used should be standardized
and not nearly as flashy as our sister project boxes. 

-- mav

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