For some projects it is good to have automagic links. The English
wiktionary is one. That project doesn't support disambiguation pages.
The automagic link generator code could certainly be aware of which
capitalisation mode is in use in each interproject and merge or split
links accordingly. In the case of the English Wiktionary, we would
only want automagic for the default namespace. Articles in other
namespaces may have counterparts in interprojects with different
titles. (Main Page is a special exception in the default namespace
though).
Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail)
On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 08:43:29 +0100, Gerard Meijssen
<gerardm(a)myrealbox.com> wrote:
Erik Moeller wrote:
Anthere-
http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708
Erik proposed himself to write it for release 1.4.
What is this status ?
I'll code it soon. The biggest open question is what syntax to use. I
think I'll go for [[Sidebar:Wiktionary:Bla]] (where "Sidebar:" would have
to be localizable).
If I understand him correctly, Brion has argued that these links should be
automagically displayed if there is an article with the same title on a
sister project wiki. That would be nice, but harder to implement.
Regards,
Erik
Hoi,
It is not a good idea to have automagic links; the reason for this is
that it does not take into account that there are these disambiguation
pages and consequently namaes that do not match, it does not take into
account that wiktionary has both lower and upper case characters. As to
the syntax, why not a short IPL for InterProject Link. It would also be
nice it the shorthand like w: and wikt: would be possible as well.
One nice feature would be, if you have a link one way to have it
automagically also the other way. Another point is, do we allow for
IPL's that cross a language divide (this would ask for [[IPL:w:en:Bla]]) ??
Thanks,
GerardM
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