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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.  [[Mediawiki]] supports a deliberately Wikipedia-centric scheme in which for instance "[ [ en: ] ]" means not "in English" but "in the English Wikipedia".   
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".  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]] - see [[Wikimedia]] for discussion of this.)  ''Prove us wrong?''


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.)
A single standard for at least the [[GFDL text corpus]] is highly desirable, and hopefully will be supported in [[GetWiki_2.0]], which will then hopefully displace [[MediaWiki]] entirely.


''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]].''
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