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Bug 28156 - Automatically sort interwiki links in the sidebar
Automatically sort interwiki links in the sidebar
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 2867
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Internationalization (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Normal enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
: accessibility, i18n
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Blocks:
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Reported: 2011-03-21 15:52 UTC by Gaëtan Landry
Modified: 2011-03-21 15:59 UTC (History)
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Description Gaëtan Landry 2011-03-21 15:52:00 UTC
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.
Comment 1 Chad H. 2011-03-21 15:59:59 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2867 ***

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