Optional would be my preference. I utilise my sidebar for other
components especially with Pathoschild's TemplateScript. So it pushes
those components down to far when editing. Also, the English
Wikisource already has predominant, overt linking so it becomes a
duplication, and at this stage the community has not considered that
they desire a change. So at this stage letting users operate their
views would be preferable.
Regards, Billinghurst
On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 10:38 PM, Lydia Pintscher
<lydia.pintscher(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:
Hey folks :)
The in other projects sidebar is a feature that adds links to articles
on other projects to the sidebar. So for example on the Wikivoyage
article about Berlin it links to the respective content on Wikipedia,
Commons and so on.This works similar to the language links that you
already have in the sidebar of an article. It is intended to make more
content available to our users and bring our projects closer together.
The in other projects sidebar has been around for many months now. It
has been a beta feature on all wikis and default on a handful. It
can't stay a beta feature forever and we should decide on its faith
now. I am happy with the reactions we have been getting about it and
believe it adds significant value for our readers and editors on
smaller projects. I therefor want to enable it on all projects. This
will happen in January. The exact date is still being decided.
If for some reason your project decides it does not want this feature
please let me know and we'll disable it for you.
The ticket for tracking this is
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103102
Cheers
Lydia
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