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''Note it omits the "http://" protocol and "/wiki/" subprotocol designations as redundant.'' | ''Note it omits the "http://" protocol and "/wiki/" subprotocol designations as redundant.'' | ||
Supporting these radically simplifies [[wiki linking]]. Because of various uses of abbreviations for services, assumptions about services, etc., it is presently quite confusing. A single standard for at least the [[GFDL text corpus]] is highly desirable, and hopefully will be supported in [[ | Supporting these radically simplifies [[wiki linking]]. Because of various uses of abbreviations for services, assumptions about services, etc., it is presently quite confusing. [[Mediawiki]] supports a deliberately Wikipedia-centric scheme in which for instance "[ [ en: ] ]" means not "in English" but "in the English Wikipedia". | ||
A single standard for at least the [[GFDL text corpus]] is highly desirable, and hopefully will be supported in [[GetWiki_2.0]]. [[Mediawiki]] is likely to continue to resist and retard the development of such a standard for the usual reasons ([[software imperialism]] - see [[Wikimedia]] for discussion of this.) | |||
''See [http://www.wikinfo.org/wiki.phtml?title=interwiki_link_standard Wikinfo:interwiki link standard] for more on this and integration into [[GetWiki]].'' | ''See [http://www.wikinfo.org/wiki.phtml?title=interwiki_link_standard Wikinfo:interwiki link standard] for more on this and integration into [[GetWiki]].'' | ||