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 ''Sean, how does being a [[WikiIndex:Bureaucrats|bureaucrat]] help with solving this issue?  Best, [[MarkDilley]]''
+== Canonical interwiki prefixes ==
+Here's [[mw:Canonical interwiki prefixes|an essay]] I wrote concerning standardization of interwiki prefixes. Development of [[mw:InterwikiMap|InterwikiMap]] is proceeding briskly; after it passes code review at WMF's Git repository, I'll start deploying it more widely. Meanwhile, I want to create a standardized list of interwiki prefixes for propagation across the wikisphere. I'm hoping that the proper prefix will be pretty obvious for most of those 20,000 wikis, but I haven't yet delved deeply into it because some data is currently processing. Maybe later today I'll be able to take a closer look.
+Right now, the InterwikiMap extension only propagates and retrieves prefixes and URLs. I think it should also handle other site information &mdash; basically, everything we can get our hands on that might be useful. I started a list at [[mw:Extension:InterwikiMap/Data]]. This extension will extend the API to both make more data available (e.g. for use by bots that could help update Wikiindex pages with new statistics, if you want to allow those on your site) and to retrieve such data from other wikis). A wiki could also create a custom filter saying that it wants to, say, only include prefixes that either are of a wikifactor 10 or better, or are on the whitelist. This could be rather powerful when all the functionality has been developed, and make some pretty useful improvements to Wikiindex possible. [[User:Leucosticte|Leucosticte]] ([[User talk:Leucosticte|talk]]) 10:15, 20 November 2012 (PST)