--- Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de wrote:

It's difficult enough to explain to people the difference between wikis, Wikimedia, and MediaWiki. We're not helping our case by using identical templates for outside projects. In the case of Wikicities, we especially want to avoid this confusion, as Wikicities is a for-profit, and Wikimedia is a non-profit.

I agree completely agree and reverted the Wikitravel template back to the non-box version. The template now creates a standardized external link again. IIRC, that change is what saved this template from deletion before. I just tried to do this with the Wikicities template, but failed. Could somebody else hack that?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template%3AWikicities

My proposal would be to list *free content* websites somewhat differently from normal ones, but to not give them a full-blown "sister project" type box. For example:

== External links == ____________________________________ | [[Free content]] links: | | * Wikitravel | | * Wikicities | |____________________________________|

Supporting free content is fine, but whatever is used should be standardized and not nearly as flashy as our sister project boxes.

-- mav

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