On 11/20/2013 07:40 AM, Andrew Gray wrote:
I think "external sites" isn't quite what this is proposing - it's generating crosslinks to Wikidata and Commons, and potentially through those to alternate-language versions. It's still remaining within the general ecosystem of our projects, and if we signpost that clearly I don't see a problem.
I think Jared is referring to the link to Reasonator (http://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/).
However, this is on Labs, not just a random external site. That means worst comes to worst, it could be disabled if it violated the Labs policies.
It's also currently an opt-in user script (you have to explicitly add code to your user JavaScript), and it only sends you to Reasonator if you click a link.
There are similar links to Labs and the Toolserver in the default interface, e.g. at the bottom of Special:Contributions.
The reason I CCed design is because of the request for a logo.
Matt Flaschen