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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".  As a result, a reference to "[ [ en: Metaweb: phyle ] ]" will be interpreted incorrectly as a reference to English Wikipedia where there is no article, instead of correctly to [http://www.metaweb.com/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=phyle English Metaweb 'phyle'] where there is one.   
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".  As a result, a reference to "[ [ en: Metaweb: phyle ] ]" will be interpreted incorrectly as a reference to English Wikipedia where there is no article, instead of correctly to [http://www.metaweb.com/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=phyle English Metaweb 'phyle'] where there is one.   


:''[[Mediawiki]] is likely to continue to resist and retard the development of such a standard for the usual reasons (typically [[software imperialism]] and specifically the control of that project by [[Erik Moeller]] and [[Tim Starling]] - see [[Wikimedia]] and [[Wikimedia corruption]] for discussion of this problem).  Other [[wiki code]] will almost certainly be required.''
:''[[Mediawiki]] is likely to continue to resist and retard the development of such a standard for the usual reasons (typically [[software imperialism]] and specifically the control of that project by [[Erik Moeller]] and [[Tim Starling]]).  Other [[wiki code]] will almost certainly be required.''


::''A single standard for at least the [[GFDL text corpus]] is highly desirable, and hopefully will be supported in [[GetWiki_2.0]] or another [[MediaWiki]] fork.  See [http://www.wikinfo.org/wiki.phtml?title=GetWiki:InterWiki GetWiki:Interwiki en:Wikinfo:GetWiki:InterWiki] for more on this and integration into [[GetWiki]].''
::''A single standard for at least the [[GFDL text corpus]] is highly desirable, and hopefully will be supported in [[GetWiki_2.0]] or another [[MediaWiki]] fork.  See [http://www.wikinfo.org/wiki.phtml?title=GetWiki:InterWiki GetWiki:Interwiki en:Wikinfo:GetWiki:InterWiki] for more on this and integration into [[GetWiki]].''
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