Last modified: 2013-10-23 13:11:38 UTC
Right now, the list of site links assumes language + site id and displays the links as such. This is fine for Wikipedia / Wikivoyage, but more than awkward for Commons and special sites that really are multilingual. The way we present Commons and special sites needs a bit of improvement. Listing them with site name and site id would be better in those cases.
After some discussion, the Wikidata team agreed on the following: * There should be one section for all "special" sites on a data item page. "Special" wikis include commons, meta, mediawiki.org, etc. * In that section, the "Language" column should be replaced with a "Project" or "Name" column. * The project name should come from a system message based on the site ID, and should be translatable. * The selector used for picking a target site should also use the project names instead of languages. * The "special" sites could be marked as such by setting the "group" field in their entry in the sites table. * However, the group assigned to each site by the sites table should be the same as the group/family associated with the site via MediaWiki's wiki farm config facility. * As a stop gap, the set of "special" wikis could be defined by a configuration variable used by Wikibase.
Change 85982 had a related patch set uploaded by Tobias Gritschacher: (bug 54492) Display a custom sitename for specific site groups https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/85982
Change 85986 had a related patch set uploaded by Tobias Gritschacher: Add msg for wm-commons sitename shown in Wikidata sitelinks-table https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/85986
Change 85986 merged by jenkins-bot: Add msg for wm-commons sitename shown in Wikidata sitelinks-table https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/85986
Change 85982 merged by jenkins-bot: (bug 54492) Display a custom sitename for specific site groups https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/85982
