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

Wed Jun 11 05:32:18 UTC 2008

On Tuesday 10 June 2008 21:56:12 Marcus Buck wrote:
> 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.

Yes, I'll update the extension to support that.