[Wikipedia-l] Interwiki links

Tue Mar 21 08:09:14 UTC 2006

See also <http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/4547>.

Heiko Evermann wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> some weeks ago I came across a proposal to allow for the inclusion of macros 
> from commons. This would mean e.g. that it would no longer be neccessary to 
> replicate babel templates between the wikipedias.
> 
> The other benefit that was proposed was the simplification of interwiki links.
> 
> One would simply define a template:interwiki_english_article_name with the 
> complete list of interwiki links. Then all those other languages would just 
> have to add {{interwiki_english_article_name}} at the bottom. 
> 
> For the transformation one would need a special robot, but after that we would 
> no longer need the interwiki robots and all the interwiki links would always 
> be up-to-date.
> 
> Are there any plans to make this possible?
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Heiko Evermann

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