[Foundation-l] wiki for interwiki (was: Foundation too passive)

Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni at mail.huji.ac.il
Mon Mar 21 17:59:22 UTC 2011


2011/3/21 Marcus Buck <me at marcusbuck.org>
>
> An'n 21.03.2011 09:27, hett Andre Engels schreven:
> > I guess I'm awfully inadequate at that then... Moving interwikis to a
> > separate site is something that I first proposed back in 2002
> > (although then saying it was 'something for the (far?) future'), that
> > has many community members and I think also developers behind it, and
> > yet it's 2011 now, and it still seems that it will not be there in the
> > near future.
> Peter17 had a Google Summer of Code project in which he developed code
> that allows interwiki transclusion. And Nikola Smolenski's Interlanguage
> extension is developed since 2008.
>
> So it's not the volunteers who lack. Apparently the main problem is "get
> it applied to the live site".

... So that's another opportunity to mention the request to enable it,
open since September 2008:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15607

Are there still any technical barriers to enabling it?

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