Oh, I see... I don't know where my head was earlier...
Jason
Brion VIBBER wrote:
Jason Richey wrote:
Brion VIBBER wrote:
Do we want to allow convenient [[Site:Title]] linking to other non-Wikipedia wikis?
Eg, [[MeatBall:InterWiki]] would get you to http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?InterWiki
We may be shooting ourselves in the foot by doing this... With a URL like the one you mention, I think it likely that it will disappear in the future...
I would not be opposed to linking [[Site:Title]] for non-Wikipedia wikis if their URLs looked like the administrator of the site intended to support them forever... For instance, if the URL was http://www.usemod.com/wiki/InterWiki or the like...
Hmm, isn't that exactly what this would solve?
The InterMap list is maintained and updated regularly. If we keep track of that and update our copy (along with the general software maintenance and development), then that neatly solves the problem of hand-copied URLs in article text potentially becoming obsolete and difficult to track down and correct manually.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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