Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Ray Saintonge wrote:
I want to diffuse this situation and I need the help from the developpers for that. The content of other wikipedia's can be found by clicking on the left hand side under "in other languages". I would like a method that allows us to link to the wiktionary article in that general area.
A link in the article should accomplish that more easily.
This link is what these people do not want and the existing link is what they object to. They say it is "advertizing an external website" and "as the people have no use for dictionary data, we can do without".
Sounds like an extreme view to me!
Why would you want to do that?
*This will remove any standard references to wiktionary from the wikipedia article itself. I do not care where there is a link from a wikipedia article to a wiktionary articel *as long as this link is there* !!! I do NOT want to remove the links from wikipedia to wiktionary. I am of the opinion that both Wikipedia and Wiktionary are sister projects and complement each other.
We may disagree about HOW the Wikiweb is structured, but we do agree that these interwiki relationships should exist. A sister site is part of the family. You make it sound like they are a little kid who wants to keep himself hidden in his own room. :-)
- Technically, the link requires a parameter as some wiktionaries do
not have first character capitalisation.
There is the additional reason that for all kinds of reason the titles of the article is not the name of the subject, disambiguation is one.
This is a technical issue which should in time be solvable.
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