2009/1/6 Marco Schuster marco@harddisk.is-a-geek.org:
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se wrote:
In the longer term, we need to redesign the interwiki links into a centralized system, that can be maintained. I think the way to do this is to use Wikimedia Commons. Instead of copying all the interwiki links to every language of Wikipedia, it should be enough to add {{commons|Category:Writers from Austria}}, and the rest should happen automatically.
Commons has enough to do with keeping metafiles up to date, they'd be crashed by also having to maintain IW links. I'd propose a new wiki, to which editors have to apply to get write access so that vandalism in this critical part is prevented.
The technology already exists:
* http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/A_newer_look_at_the_interlanguage_link
But it is not enabled yet:
* https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15607