Please read my original e-mail, where I said I'm not aware of up-to-date information, but I remember participating in a vote at en.wp where sorting by code won overwhelmingly.
Mark
2008/5/29 Andre Engels andreengels@gmail.com:
2008/5/29 Andre Engels andreengels@gmail.com:
2008/5/28 Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com:
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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