Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-452-20140917000024/@comment-5590118-20140917143506

I think they mean it makes it harder for people who copy the page source for other sites. It adds the extra step of converting the interwiki links to regular link markup (unless they use MediaWiki as well).

When it all comes down to it the links will both be rendered the same way when the page is generated so link choice is up to personal preference. I myself prefer the shorter interwiki links as opposed to the longer full url links with a mask for pages on Wikia hosted sites.