2012/8/22 Daniel Friesen daniel@nadir-seen-fire.com:
On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:33:59 -0700, bawolff bawolff+wn@gmail.com wrote:
I would really like to see the interlanguage stuff re-done. Preferably with a means to configure multiple types of interwikis-that-go-in-sidebars so people could have interproject links and what not. Commons might have a section (portlet) in the sidebar for each of the sister projects, and each section contains the language links for that project
That's why we turned the language link boolean into a string ;)
Also part of my skinning rewrite plans (if I ever get back to that) actually touched the area of letting us have more than just language links in the sidebar/wherever... https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Dantman/Skinning_system/Link_lists_rewri... https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Dantman/Skinning_system/Customization#Al...
That said there are some other parts of interlanguage I'd like changed too. It would be nice if we could drop the in-wiki [[en:Foo]] for a proper interface and have templates use something like {{#languagelink:en:Foo}}.
Whereas I see that that would be nice in the long run, due to its possible effect on the existing text in the Wikipedias I would strongly suggest to not make that a blocker for Wikidata.
My assumption would be: once we have Wikidata running, the language links in the Wikipedias will drop considerably, upon which a change to the syntax of interlanguage links would become much more feasible. Changing the syntax for language links just so we can externalize them to Wikidata is not the way I would suggest to go.
Does this sound reasonable?
Cheers, Denny