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 Supporting this '''standard''' radically simplifies [[wiki linking]] for the average user and lets different [[web services]] compete to support the [[GFDL text corpus]] better.  Unfortunately neither [[MediaWiki]] nor [[GetWiki]] imposes them as a default.  They really should.
-:One theory is that they do not do so because [[Wikimedia]] wishes its own URIs to be stable, but those of other users of [[MediaWiki]] software to be ever-changing, and thus difficult to remember.  This makes it more likely that URIs of Wikipedia pages will be coded into many HTML and XML pages, which helps them advance their claim that they are sole reliable stewards of the [[GFDL text corpus]].
-:[[GetWiki]] developers in general resist that claim and are far more likely to implement the '''standard''' as a default, and indeed to work towards [[wikitext standard]]s in general.
 ''See [http://www.wikinfo.org/wiki.phtml?title=standard_wiki_URI Wikinfo: standard_wiki_URI] for more, and [[interwiki link standard]] for the equivalent issue for links within the [[GFDL text corpus]].''