Talk:Wikitext standard

Putting all external links in proper interwiki link standard form is the first step to supporting it in software directly. If the standard wiki URI is also supported properly on the target wikis, the translation is automatic, no brains required, no knowledge of which version of MediaWiki or GetWiki they run, etc.. This is obviously necessary for the GFDL text corpus to evolve independent of Wikimedia, which ought to be our goal.

If it isn't, we're not working on the same project, obviously.