[Foundation-l] internal or external?

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Sun Oct 24 20:36:22 UTC 2004


NSK wrote:

>On Sunday 24 October 2004 23:56, Andre Engels wrote:
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>>Wikipedia to Wiktionary are internal links? And if yes, could they
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>In my opinion I see no reason why the dictionary needs to be separate from the 
>wikipedia. Many dictionaries are like encyclopedias and many pedias are like 
>dictionaries. There is definitely some degree of overlap.
>
They are separate projects because the way they approach material is 
completely different.  The same can be said of the other project.  Each 
sets its own policies subject to a handful of broad policies that cover 
all Wikimedia projects.

To the original question, I would answer that the links are external to 
Wikipedia but internal to Wikimedia.

Ec




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