A simple text link in the external links section of a page would
generally be more appropriate than a box or template. We already have
policies regulating the addition of external links to articles, and
these should be applied to Wikicities and Wikitravel in the same way
that they are to any other site. Just because something is free
content, or hosted on a wiki, doesn't mean we should give these sites
any special consideration when deciding what is actually useful as
part of an article.
I feel Wikipedia has way too many of these boxes already, and we need
to make sure these don't proliferate by allowing any free content site
to add their link in this proposed box if that link is not useful to
readers of that article.
For promoting Wikimedia's own projects, the template is more
justifiable, but even there, I would prefer if this was regarded more
as meta data than as article content. Generating sister project links
automatically, or having them as part of the interface rather than the
article would be far preferable. Anthere made a request in bugzilla
related to this last year
(<http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708>).
Angela
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Angela Beesley
Wikicities.com