On 2/18/07, Daniel Arnold <arnomane(a)gmx.de> wrote:
Links from article namespace into other namespaces are
EVIL.
So you reject links to categories as well, presumably. And
disambiguation links to mediawiki and wikipedia namespaces?
MediaWiki introduced namespaces in order to separate
content and content
management. Portals are content management not core content themselves.
This is not an argument against linking from one space to another. If
you're worried about downstream content reusers, the easy solution is
to use a template like {{selfref}} to indicate that a link is not part
of the encyclopaedic content.
Now imagine a Wikipedia DVD with lots of strange links
into other namespaces.
I certainly want a DVD that does not contain the online Wikipedia specific
portal pages (which contain things such as news, calls for reviews and not et
existing articles).
There's a huge amount of processing that needs to be done before we
could put out a top quality Wikipedia DVD. Stripping out
cross-namespace links is the least of our worries.
So BURN all portal links in article namespace NOW.
Portals are useful but not
everyhwere.
Um, as pointed out, currently there aren't any. Or are you talking
about fr and other languages?
Steve