[Foundation-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] Bot policy for all wikis

[David Gerard]

2008/5/29 Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com>:

> The current language order in the bot was done that way because we
> were told to do so by the English Wikipedia. I'd happily change it,
> but THE DECISION IS UP TO THE ENGLISH WIKIPEDIA, NOT TO YOU.


The answer is surely to include interwiki-link ordering as a parameter
that can be set for each wiki. That way, whatever order they're in at
the end of the article, they show up in the correct order in the
rendered page.

The bug is: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2867

Surely someone can get that patch into acceptable shape for the MediaWiki code?

(unless there's some problem with it that isn't clear from the bug -
cc to wikitech-l)


- d.