Last modified: 2006-02-04 21:31:12 UTC
From the German Wikipedia, [[w:foo]] links to the English wikipedia (not German), but [[b:foo]] links to the German wikibooks (not English).
w points to a central place so you can put additional language prefixes on it and have it redirect to each language Wikipedia.
Then why doesn't b: point to a central place? The inconsistency should be resolved one way or the other. [[meta:Help:Interwiki linking]] says this: w:Main Page - Wikipedia in the same language as the project the link is from (if that is multilingual, then English) b:Main Page - Wikibooks in the same language as the project the link is from (if that is multilingual, then English) That's why I chose to say "w: should link to de.wikipedia" rather than "b: should point to www.wikibooks (central place)". Also, the central place looks too English-centric.
1) b: has no bearing on w: 2) w: exists independently so that you can use it to bounce to any language in Wikipedia, as a shorthand for the WikiPedia: interwiki which works on various other non-Wikimedia wikis as well.
marking Bug 3861: at wikimedia foundations projects in languages others then English the interwiki prefix w: is not an equivalent of wikipedia: as a duplicate of this bug
*** Bug 3861 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
