[Wikipedia-l] Re: Re: [Wikitech-l] cross-Wikipedia redirects

[Brion VIBBER]

Daniel Mayer wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 October 2002 04:00 am, Brion Vibber wrote:
>>Which reminds me -- not for redirecting, but for interwiki linking in
>>general. Do we want to allow convenient [[Site:Title]] linking to other
>>non-Wikipedia wikis?
> 
> Heavens no! We should only be using interlanguage links to interlink Wikipedia 
> encyclopedia language versions. Everything else should either be an inline 
> intralink within the same language version or an inline external link to a 
> non-wikipedia encyclopedia page. 

Eh?

The magic interlanguage links (which appear at the top of the screen in 
a list by language name instead of inline) are *only* for the language 
links, and *only* on the encyclopedic wikis. They are a magic subset of 
interwiki links which behave funny because it's useful to us.

Interwiki links to meta and sep11 from the encyclopedia wikis are *not* 
magic interlanguage links. Links to any language encyclopedia wiki from 
meta or sep11 are *not* magic inter-language links. They appear as 
inline links, and I wouldn't imagine suggesting anything else.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)