[Foundation-l] A newer look at the interwiki link

Tue Jun 10 19:56:12 UTC 2008

Nikola Smolenski hett schreven:
> Some time ago, http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/A_new_look_at_the_interwiki_link 
> was proposed, which aimed to ease the hanfling of interlanguage links. 
> However, it didn't progress very far, as no technical solution existed for 
> central interlanguage link handling it envisioned.
>
> I have now created a MediaWiki extension 
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Interlanguage which gives the 
> technical solution and renewed the proposal at 
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/A_newer_look_at_the_interwiki_link . Comments, 
> suggestions, critiques are welcome.
>
> You may see the extension at work at http://testwiki.smolenski.rs .

Great work. I would support its introduction. But you should add custom 
sort order for the single projects. For example: no does have nn, da and 
sv before all other interwiki links. So a free sorting order should be 
made available additionally to the four standard sort orders.

Marcus Buck
Slomox