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

[White Cat]

Right. Such technical problems can be solved in many ways. But this wasn't
the point of this post.

   - White Cat

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:38 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
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