(a post that I made to [[s:en:WS:S]] )
From the Tech News post [1] it is worth highlighting
and starting
discussions on some of these aspects as they have some bearing on our
approach, or they could. There are a number of significant changes there.
Sister links in sidebar in beta
In the past few years we at enWS have utilised the adaptive template {{plain
sister <https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Template:Plain_sister>}} to display
our xwiki sister links, and these have displayed within the respective
namespace headers (top right, generally in the notes section equivalents).
With Tpt's script in beta, there is now the ability to have sister links
displayed, for an example turn on the beta and look at Author:William
Shakespeare <https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:William_Shakespeare>. So
the community should be discussing whether we a) want just the existing
header links, b) want just sidebar links, or c) allow both to exist as
people will get used to sidebar links, however, more overt linking is
useful, especially in the eyeline
Linksto: search filter
This new search query allows us to undertake a new series of criteria for
search based on the target, and also allows us to use -linksto: which may
be a useful maintenance tool. Also useful for research searching, eg.
-linksto:"Author:Banjo
Paterson" "Banjo Paterson" which would return pages that mention Banjo
Paterson but do not link to the author page. As a community, I think that
there is definitely work for us to do to explore the options in
mw:Help:CirrusSearch <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch> and
put some local spin on how to exploit the new power, and also with some of
the Extension:DynamicPageList
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DynamicPageList> uses. —
billinghurst <https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:Billinghurst> *sDrewth
<https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User_talk:Billinghurst>* 15:36, 1 September
2014 (UTC)
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/36
Regards, Billinghurst