On Apr 8, 2005 9:07 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I read some complaints and questions on
interwiki-links. Will there be the
> ability for admins to edit the list of interwiki-prefixes in MediaWiki 1.5 so
> developers do not have to deal with them anymore?
No, there will not be a way to do that like that.
I don't mean to sound rude, but how do you know? If you think we
*shouldn't* have such a feature, then I'm happy to hear your reasoning
- and indeed I'd tend to agree w.r.t. the Wikimedia projects, simply
because there are so many of them to manage at once. But Wikimedia is
only one user of the software, and I think for some people web-based
administration is far more convenient than command-line scripts or
direct database hacking.
Given that MediaWiki is an open-source project, I don't see how you
can state that there "will not be" - if someone writes the feature, it
will exist. Even if it's not included in the distribution, they can
host it themselves as an additional download. Unless you just meant
that it won't be in 1.5, and I've missed some decision about the kind
of new features still being accepted for that release?
--
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]