2008/5/29 Andre Engels <andreengels(a)gmail.com>om>:
2008/5/28 Mark Williamson <node.ue(a)gmail.com>om>:
I do think it's unacceptable that Interwiki
bots go in and change the
order of interwikis against the agreed-upon orders at each Wiki.
I remember a while back, we agreed on en.wp to order interwiki links
by code, and it seems that the bots never cared - ja: always came
after nl: rather than after it:. I'm not sure if a different policy
has been decided since then, but bots have always been oblivious, it
seems.
Maybe you should have *shock* told us? Long time ago en: decided to
use alphabetically by language name. So the bot programmers
implemented that. Since then, we haven't been told it has been decided
differently, so we haven't changed it. We have some nice code, but no
crystal balls. We use whatever order the local community prefers, but
we do need to be told what that preference is.
I searched, and the information about interwiki sorting order that I found is:
"The link tags should be sorted alphabetically based on the local
names of the languages, as described at m:Interwiki sorting order. The
vast majority of articles are currently sorted this way." -
[[en:Help:Interlanguage links]].
So if this rule has changed, then please change the information AS
WELL AS notifying the bot programmers.
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