Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-452-20140917000024/@comment-1251315-20140920132439

Yatalu wrote: As for locally, it has been done before, I think even admins here can do. E.g. on w:c:tes-mods tes: links to w:c:elderscrolls. You are correct, the local Central Wiki admins here are able to add interwiki links for wiki's individually, as in the example you gave.

452 wrote: Are there any examples of entries of the standard interwiki map being disabled for an individual wiki? The interwiki map isn't being disabled per-se, you can still use w:c:elderscrolls on the TES Mods wiki: all that was added was a shorter and alternative way of going to the same place just by using tes:somearticlenamehere. If you to w:c:tes-mods:Project:Sandbox, you can see that there are three links to the exact same page: by clicking each, despite them being typed slightly differently, they all go to the exact same page on the exact same wiki. The interwiki map is only a way to list ways that a link can be accessed: it depends on how it is set up per-wiki (such as you can do w:Thread:733280 to link to Central Wiki in a shorter way than doing w:c:community:Thread:733280),

The reasoning behind that was because, on TES Mods wiki specifically, there are lots of references to things that exist on TES Wiki: hence, the wiki would be littered in lots of w:c:elderscrolls style links, adding unnecessary length to the article source and making it a mess to deal with. As a result, the tes: interwiki link was created for TES Mods wiki.

Personally, I find interwiki links to be more appropriate to use. It makes editing the source much better if 95% of the code is standard MediaWiki markup. Whenever I see people adding links that have been copied from the address bar, it makes me think they've either used a Visual Editor, or they're not really acquainted with the wikitext markup, which can be fine but usually leads to unnecessary bloat.