On 08/09/2007, Kevin Chen cyaugin@yahoo.com wrote:
If I were to make a suggestion, it would be to disallow default third-party interwikis. This way you can't get blindsided by popular topics or by mere English words for that matter, both of which are true in my case. Failing that, there could be stricter naming guidelines, such as requiring the word "wiki" to be appended (e.g. unrealwiki). In total, though, IMO it's just bad form to provide third-party links to unsuspecting hosts or visitors, especially when there is no visible disclosure that this kind of thing could happen. I'm not clear on why these default links were included in the first place, unless maybe they contributed to the MW code?
Absolutely bloody right. There's far too much cruft in our default interwiki list; I for one tend to truncate the entire table and re-create a few select rows when I set up a production wiki, which is admittedly very infrequently.
Rob Church