Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-452-20140917000024/@comment-452-20140920130752

Yatalu wrote:

You can also type w:c:OtherWikiName:ArticleName, which works the same. Which brings the issue back around to personal convenience, which is a perfectly acceptable reason for a person to use them but doesn't make sense in the context of changing existing links - which I have seen some people do, and is actually what began my search for answers.

However, I should stay on topic myself.

Yatalu wrote:

E.g. on w:c:tes-mods tes: links to w:c:elderscrolls. Thank you very much for the example. Are there any examples of entries of the standard interwiki map being disabled for an individual wiki? (Or a link altered? as per the original suggestion.)

Yatalu wrote:

In the case you use a template for interwiki links, you would be able to easily find them through Special:WhatLinksHere of the template anyway, so. Well, Special:WhatLinksHere will not list what the link is. However, DPL can, so thank you very much for this excellent point in favour of using a template for all interwiki links.

The following facts point to using a template for all interwikia links to be a better solution than simply using external links to other wikia wikis.
 * Using a template results in a link of equal or lesser lengths
 * Using a template for interwikia links will likely mean that they will not be changed back into interwiki links
 * Using a template will allow all interwikia links to easily be listed using DPL
 * Special:LinkSearch displays links created by templates.