On 2/18/07, Daniel Arnold arnomane@gmx.de wrote:
Links from article namespace into other namespaces are EVIL.
So you reject links to categories as well, presumably. And disambiguation links to mediawiki and wikipedia namespaces?
MediaWiki introduced namespaces in order to separate content and content management. Portals are content management not core content themselves.
This is not an argument against linking from one space to another. If you're worried about downstream content reusers, the easy solution is to use a template like {{selfref}} to indicate that a link is not part of the encyclopaedic content.
Now imagine a Wikipedia DVD with lots of strange links into other namespaces. I certainly want a DVD that does not contain the online Wikipedia specific portal pages (which contain things such as news, calls for reviews and not et existing articles).
There's a huge amount of processing that needs to be done before we could put out a top quality Wikipedia DVD. Stripping out cross-namespace links is the least of our worries.
So BURN all portal links in article namespace NOW. Portals are useful but not everyhwere.
Um, as pointed out, currently there aren't any. Or are you talking about fr and other languages?
Steve