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List:       intlwiki-l
Subject:    Re: [Intlwiki-l] Inline language links on non-Wikipedia projects
From:       Brion Vibber <brion () pobox ! com>
Date:       2003-08-31 23:37:55
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Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:

>On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 03:40:24PM -0700, Daniel Mayer wrote:
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>>Eh? wp = WikiPedia. How about making our acronyms less Wikipedia-centric? 
>>
>>MediaWiki is not just for Wikipedia, so why should w be the prefered way to 
>>link to Wikipedia articles? We should encourage more explicit linking while 
>>at the same time not making this too difficult. Thus enwp: is a good 
>>compromise and should be preferred over w:en, IMO. 
>>    
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>"enwp" isn't very parsable. It should be wp:en:article not middle-endian en:wp:article.
>

I'd recommend against using two- or three-letter codes in general, as 
this brings the potential for conflict with language codes. (Presently 
assigned in the w's: wa, wen, wln, wo, wol. New 2-letter codes will 
_probably_ not be assigned, but who knows.)

Four-letter codes like "enwp" would have to all be special-cased at 
every installation where you want to link from. Using a common prefix 
for Wikipedia (whether "w:", "WikiPedia", "wp:", or whatever) and _then_ 
the language code requires configuration only in a single place. You can 
_right now_ make interwiki links to the Wolof or Low Saxon Wikipedias 
from MeatballWiki or anywhere else with a generic interwiki link that 
comes to www.wikipedia.org, as well as from any of our wikis. I think 
this is a good thing, and points very much in favor of a consistent 
prefix:langcode:title system.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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