Tim Starling wrote:
kelvSYC wrote:
So, in terms of wikimarkup, you could use something like [[quote:Main Page]] to link to Wikiquote's main page from a Wikipedia or Wiktionary? What about [[books:Main Page]] or [[source:Main Page]]?
The current interwiki link prefixes are "w" for wikipedia, "wikt" for wiktionary and "wikiquote" for wikiquote. I was intending on using the literal names "wikibooks" and "wikisource", since those prefixes were already valid interwiki links. When I set up the multi-language wiktionaries, there were subtle differences between the "wiktionary" link which I left as is for backwards compatibility, and the new "wikt" link. People found these differences confusing when they encountered them, which is why I avoided it this time. However I can see the advantage of having short names, and perhaps the problems could be avoided with better documentation, or maybe a slight break in backwards compatibility to produce a more intuitive result.
My own preferences have always been "wp" for Wikipedia; "wd" for Wiktionary (though I suppose "wt" would do), "wq" for Wikiquote, "ws" for Wikisource, "wb" for Wikibooks, and "wm" for the 9/11 project. These are all two letter "w" codes which should be easy to remember. I haven't heard any clamour for additional projects. The "w" codes would not conflict with any ISO-639-1 language codes where only "wa" and "wo" are used.
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