2010/10/11 Strainu strainu10@gmail.com:
Hi,
These days I had a little time to clear my TODO list after Wikimania and I tried to find some information about the "central interwiki repository" idea.
What I want to know is:
- Is there support from the community for some extended tests on this
subject on the Wikimedia websites?
I opened the bug in which i ask to enable Nikola's extension on Wikipedia two years ago. For what it's worth, most of the comments there approve of the idea and there's no strong opposition: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15607
See also http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:A_newer_look_at_the_interlanguage_link
- Are there plans to extend the current extensions in order to
support something like [1], which would be much more interesting, but also much more challenging?
It is possible to develop something more interesting and challenging, but it seems that Nikola's solution will work *now* to solve some of the problems of interwiki maintenance that have annoyed many people for more than five years.
In any case, when something more interesting is developed, it will be easier to migrate there from Nikola's solution than from the current state of affairs.