[WikiEN-l] Linkage bloat

[Jussi-Ville Heiskanen]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:36 AM, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On 09/11/11 22:29, Peter Jacobi wrote:
>> Perhaps the usefulness of portals and categories can be combined.
>> For example, but unrealistic in the short term, clicking to a
>> standard category link should open the portal page of the same name
>> if it exists.
>
> You could just put {{Portal:{{PAGENAME}} }} at the top of the category
> page, although I appreciate how difficult it is to change the relevant
> policy.
>
> I came to the conclusion many years ago that the easiest way to make a
> policy change on Wikipedia is to spend 6 months writing and deploying
> software that requires or implements the  change. It's a lot easier to
> get a majority in a software deployment vote than it is to build
> consensus behind an editorial policy.
>

Not really. Two sofwareside attempts on Finnish Wikipedia crashed and burned,
despite me trying to nurse them along.



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