Author: dovijacobs
Description:
In preparation for language domains, Wikisource users reached the following
consensus about links between projects and languages. The problem: Can this be
implemented, and if not then what needs to be changed?
The consensus:
- Languages: Links between languages should work the same way they do in the
other multilingual projects (Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wiktionary,
Wikinews). However, there must be one extra element in Wikisource that doesn't
exist in the other projects, namely a special neutral link to the original wiki
here at wikisource.org. For instance, while "fr:" links to French and "de:" to
German, we would also need another code (e.g. "xx:" or "s:" [see below]) to link
to the main wikisource.org '''instead of''' a regular language prefix. '''Note:
These language links do not currently work at [[:hewikisource:|Hebrew
Wikisource]], but instead point to Wikipedias.'''
- Links between projects: As in other projects, there should be a simple code
to use for linking between Wikisource in a specific language such as French to
all the other projects in French (e.g. "w:" for Wikipedia or "n:" for Wikinews).
The strong preference at Wikisource is to simply use the single letter "s:" (as
in "source", similar to "b:" for wikibooks and "q:" for Wikiquote). Project
links ("w:", "b:", etc.) will need to point to projects in the same language,
but '''this does not currently work at [[:hewikisoruce:|Hebrew Wikisource]].'''
- "Hard" links: The current hard links are "wikisource:" for Wikisource and
"hewikisource:" for Hebrew Wikisource. The Wikisource community would prefer
simply "s:" for Wikisource and "hes:", "ens:", "des:", etc. for the language
editions.
Further information can be found at:
http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Language_domain_requests#Interwiki_links
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URL: http://wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Wikisource:Language_domain_requests&oldid=125437#Interwiki_links