Wiki linking: Difference between revisions

734 bytes removed ,  13 March 2004
moving proposed standards to talk page because we are not implementing them so we must be just talking about them
(standards are imposed by the GFDL text corpus and the need to support multiple languages and services, the Mediawiki and Getwiki defaults are wrong, and we must say so)
(moving proposed standards to talk page because we are not implementing them so we must be just talking about them)
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* <nowiki>[[Consumerium:Village pump|]]</nowiki> is presented like this [[Consumerium:Village pump|Village pump]]
* <nowiki>[[Consumerium:Village pump|]]</nowiki> is presented like this [[Consumerium:Village pump|Village pump]]


== proposed standards ==
===[[MediaWiki]] 1.2.0rc3 and [[GetWiki]] defaults ===
 
*[[interwiki link standard]]
*[[interwiki identity standard]] - for links between authors and articles which are presently treated as "special", despite the fact they are often very tenuous
*[[standard wiki URI]]
 
There are some temporary hacks which violate standards of the vast majority of [[GFDL text corpus]] articles, and others which make it difficult to move away from a service-specific hierarchy to a language-specific hierarchy.  These are:
 
===[[MediaWiki]] 1.2.0rc3 and [[GetWiki]] defaults ==
The following are the non-[[standard wiki URI]]s which are the unwise defaults:
The following are the non-[[standard wiki URI]]s which are the unwise defaults:
  http://www.consumerium.org/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Wiki_linking (as before)
  http://www.consumerium.org/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Wiki_linking (as before)
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  ('simple','http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1',1);
  ('simple','http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1',1);


Should anyone have the need to link to Wikipedia in languages other than English, just stick in the language code like so: [[Wikipedia:fr:Commerce �quitable]] or [[w:fr:Commerce �quitable]]. ''This also violates the proposed [[interwiki link standard]], which would reverse this to [[fr:Wikipedia:Commerce_�quitable]], putting the language first to create a language-specific hierarchy, and requiring the full service name "Wikipedia".''
Should anyone have the need to link to Wikipedia in languages other than English, just stick in the language code like so: [[Wikipedia:fr:Commerce �quitable]] or [[w:fr:Commerce �quitable]].
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