https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28156
Summary: Automatically sort interwiki links in the sidebar
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Keywords: accessibility, i18n
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: Internationalization
AssignedTo: wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
ReportedBy: headbom...@hotmail.com
Currently, if a page has the following interwiki links
[[fr:Quark]]
[[ru:Кварк]]
[[it:Quark (particella)]]
they get displayed as
Français
Русский
Italiano
in the sidebar.
This means that individual wikis need to maintain the ordering on individual
articles, through bots, manual editing, etc... which consume a considerable
amount of both bot-hours and man-hours, and which in turn generates edits with
a relatively bad cost/value ratio. This disproportionately takes a toll on the
smaller wikis since they have smaller editing communities, some of them which
might not have the technical people required to make and maintain these bots.
A better approach would be to have a per-wiki master list of interwiki-link
ordering, meaning that (on the English Wikipedia)
[[fr:Quark]]
[[ru:Кварк]]
[[it:Quark (particella)]]
Would be displayed as
Français
Italiano
Русский
(or however the master-list tells the software to order them), regardless of
their order within the article. This would guarantee a consistent displaying of
interwiki links, making the interface more user-friendly to foreign editors
across all wikis.
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