Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5558012-20170926155253

Recently a user's first edit on a wiki was to add a interwiki link into an article and that got me curious on a number of questions I'd love some input with.


 * 1) Do you know of any wikis that have policies regarding interwiki links? If so, what policies do they have?
 * 2) Should interwiki links be used more or less in articles?
 * 3) How do you feel about their use in general and if a user edited a wiki just to add them?

I've had mixed feelings about them for a long time for a number of reasons. One of the biggest is that they look like a link to an article on the wiki. Another is that sometimes they link to another wiki but not back. And a third is whether or not the article being linked to actually contains accurate information. I know some wikis link only to Wikipedia article in their articles though I don't see that as a better choice. 