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Steve Bennett wrote:
Why exactly do we have these "interwiki"
links that go to projects
with no connection to WikiMedia? Why not just use templates:
{{youtube|foo}} (which might expand to
[
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v={{{1}}}|{{{1}}} at
YouTube.com]
rather than
[[YouTube:foo]]
for instance.
Why is it preferable that they be in the software itself?
The interwiki link system (and a bunch of the items in the list) predate
the existence of MediaWiki; we inherited it from UseModWiki which was
used for Wikipedia's first year.
These days, templates may well be the best way to handle such.
- -- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com / brion @
wikimedia.org)
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