User talk:Sannse/feature

I wouldn't call them partner sites since it implies some sort of two-way relationship which there often won't be. Angela (talk) 21:11, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Wookieepedia has set up a similar relationship with other Star Wars fansites: see Official Friends of Wookieepedia, a feature we showcase on our Main Page. Is this the sort of thing you're getting at? &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 03:18, 13 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I think it was more aimed at other language versions of a wiki. Angela (talk) 08:44, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

The ability to edit the interwiki and interlanguage link destinations from a special page is something that's been sitting on the bug list, requested since at least May 2006. An extension to provide such a special page is available (and in use on many of the Uncyclopedias, just not any at Wikia). A similar extension to edit the list of namespaces also exists.

Other-language versions of a wiki do belong in the languages box; splitting them so that half of the languages are in some other box does seem a bit arbitrary. If there's a need for "in other Wikia", then create that as a new box and leave "in other languages" alone instead of fragmenting the local project.

It looks like the existing interwiki tables can be used as a source of names for valid link locations. There may not be any need to change the database; it already gives addresses of all directly-reachable wikis and indicates which are local.

Mostly, these are already listed in the interwiki table by name. The w: interwiki prefix (both as used here, and as used in Wikipedia) is the one special case. There is no wiki named W. In Wikipedia, w: points to Wikipedia itself, on Wikia it points to the central Wikia. That may create some awkward links like w:c:wikiname:pagename or wikia:wikiname:pagename. Any extension would need to be semi-aware of these, to ensure at a minimum that the correct name is displayed in the sidebar.

I'd suspect that something like see-wikiname:pagename (as a means to put a link to wikiname:pagename in the sidebar) could be compatible with the same 'bots that currently maintain language links. Instead of linking different languages, they would link same-topic pages in different projects.

And yes, from a technical standpoint what you describe is plausible. Nonetheless, I could see this very easily getting bogged down in discussion of what is a "partner site", what is a "sister site" or all of the usual problems with admins on a project not being able to add to that project's interwiki list. In the current context, I'm not certain that I would want to go further with this.

We're currently at thirty-four Uncyclopedia languages; try to make outbound interlanguage links from most Wikia-hosted sites in this series and that number drops to twenty-eight. Perhaps talking in terms of changing core MediaWiki code is a bit overambitious at the moment? --carlb 00:46, 9 January 2007 (UTC)