Interwiki link standard

In a wikitext standard, an interwiki link standard refers to articles in wiki form stored in another service. Protocol and editing functions are assumed to be similar, so the interwiki link standard is a bit simpler than the standard wiki URI for linking into a wiki from non-wiki space. It consists only of:

[ [ language:service:namespace_within_service:page/subpage#section ] ]

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 GetWiki:2.0.

See Wikinfo:interwiki link standard for more on this and integration into GetWiki.