WikiIndex talk:Interwiki

This Help:Guide for system administrators for setting up interwiki linking might be useful, though only John can actually do it. — User:Sean Fennel@ 14:20, 9 September 2006 (EDT)

Sean, Interwiki linking has been set up in a test mode for several months now with only two links set up but one of those was the universal link, Any Wiki. The other link is Commons Wiki. As of today I have activated all the links and put a list of them up on the InterWiki page. The proposal on the table is that we take the complete list of Wikis from WikiIndex and add them to the list of links. All we need is a decision to do that and it shouldn't take too much to get it done. Test links Meatball Barnraising

Requests

Can I request interwiki links? Then I would like to have an YTMND interwiki link (ytmnd:Main Page http://wiki.ytmnd.com/$1) Smiddle 10:01, 24 September 2006 (EDT)

In the list the prefixes for sunir.org and Ward's Wiki are the same. — User:Sean Fennel@ 16:40, 24 September 2006 (EDT)

Gosh, don't we have Wikia links? [[wikia:Page]], http://www.wikia.com/wiki/$1 – Smiddle / T·C·S·A 14:04, 1 October 2006 (EDT)

Editable Interwiki list

Go here to see the interwiki list, this list is editable, contact me if you want to be able to do that. John 14:47, 29 October 2006 (EST)

Google

Interwiki linking to Google makes for instance Google: Wiki Index, which makes the search to Wiki_Index. Is there eny way to set up so that the spaces will be plusses instead? – Smiddle / T·C·@ 04:41, 19 November 2006 (EST)

Interlanguage links

Please make a redirect from WikiIndex.com to .org... there're a lot of interlanguage links that links to WikiIndex.com. For example: :fr:, :de:, :en:, and I don't want to do the hard work to delete them and remake them :( – Smiddle / T·C·@ 11:48, 18 December 2006 (PST)

Seems to be working now or am I missing the point :-) John 20:10, 18 December 2006 (PST)

No, all these link to WikiIndex.com/$1, and if I'm gonna change every link to .org it's very hard work... – Smiddle / T·C·@ 08:59, 19 December 2006 (PST)

I need to understand the problem better, what links are we talking about and where are they located? What exactly are you asking me to do? John 14:51, 19 December 2006 (PST)

Smiddle is trying to say that there's need to redirect every query to WikiIndex.com to WikiIndex.org, like there's existing redirect from blah.WikiCities.com to blah.Wikia.com, so there will be no need to edit Special:Interwiki and delete lot of entries that links to WikiIndex.com and then add lot of entries that links to WikiIndex.org. Szoferka 16:30, 19 December 2006 (PST)

Ahhh! if it is the InterWiki table that you want changed I can do that in a flash at the database level. We want to limit access to WikiIndex to the WikiIndex.org domain name, that's why we are forwarding WikiIndex.com to WikiIndex.org. Let me know if changing the table will do the trick. John 16:47, 19 December 2006 (PST)

I don't really get what you mean. I use interwiki links for 1: tutorials and help in various languages, for example at the What is a Wiki you'd write :fr:C'est quoi un wiki? to language link to the C'est quoi un wiki? page. 2: multilingual wikis, the Wikipedia page for example has :de:Deutsche Wikipedia, :fr:Français Wikipédia and so on. But due to no .com adress, the links won't work if one click them. If there's not some quick way, I'll have to change every link at the interwiki table for hand. If you scroll down, you'll find that for example :es: links to WikiIndex.com/$1 instead of org. – Smiddle / T·C·@ 08:15, 20 December 2006 (PST)

I have changed all the Interwiki table entries for WikiIndex from .com to .org John 10:27, 20 December 2006 (PST)

Thanks a lot. Now it works. – Smiddle / T·C·@ 11:08, 20 December 2006 (PST)

Interwiki requests

Hi, make requests for interwiki links below. There are thousands of wikis out there so its not possible to add them all but if your wiki is really active and has a good number of articles, please request it here...--Comets 06:48, 27 November 2008 (EST)

Interwiki template

I'm thinking about creating an interwiki template - maybe {{Interwiki}}. I see this as a simple one-line indented message (similar to say the {{For}} template) to be placed on specific pages here on WikiIndex to advise we have an interwiki link already set up. A couple of example target pages for this template would be the English Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. We could even set the template to include the actual interwiki prefix. What do we think to this? Sean, aka Hoof Hearted • _Admin • talk2HH 03:40, 15 October 2012 (PDT)

Hi Sean! I like the idea - it had been discussed as maybe being part of the info box - like having the InterWiki prefix included, although I am a sucker for actually spelling everything out. - I am happy where ever it ends up! :-) Also, I am still mulling over putting things in the project namespace and the locking of pages. :-) Best, MarkDilley

OK, added the template to my to do list.

In terms of project namespace vs main namespace – the choice is obviously yours, but I'd like to suggest that when an article on a general wiki idea discusses specific actions or attributes which are unique to this WikiIndex site, then they really ought to stay (or be moved to) the WikiIndex project namespace; whereas any article which makes no reference to specifics of WikiIndex can be in the main namespace – IMVHO.

Page protection – we have over 19,000 articles in the main namespace (and that doesn't include project, category, user, file namespaces); but according to Special:ProtectedPages, we have less than 200 protected pages. Maybe 20% of those are in the MediaWiki namespace[1] (which are protected by default and can't be changed), there are a small number of user pages (and users should IMVHO have the absolute right on weather they want their own namespaces protected or not), some are 'user pages' which have been setup and locked to prevent doppelgangers, another small number of high-importance pages (typically those which are reached directly from the sidebar and are thus a very easy target for vandalism), and the vast remainder are templates – which are vital to the whole look and feel of this wiki. For example, if someone makes a malicious edit to {{Wiki}}, that will have a potentially catastrophic effect on over 19,000 other pages. Even an 'innocent' bad edit to a template can have a knock-on effect – many templates are interlinked with other templates, as my innocent edit to one of the language templates back in January proved. Furthermore, of those templates which are protected, the vast majority are only 'move' protected; they are still open edit, just a select few important templates are protected to log-in editors. Finally, if you check the protection log, you will see that many were protect by others apart from me (scroll down!), and that very recently I've been removing protection to some which I feel deserve it (and wern't previously subject to edit wars). So whilst we may have nigh-on 200 in the protection list, only a very small percentage of those are 'edit' protected. Best, Sean, aka Hoof Hearted • _Admin • talk2HH 06:03, 19 October 2012 (PDT)