Last modified: 2014-02-25 12:51:50 UTC
Managing interwiki links is a basic activity that almost every new mediawiki setup has to do. For example, the predefined list of interwiki links does not contain links to language versions of wikipedia, one of the first needs for many installations. Mediawiki core presently assumes that interwiki is being managed by SQL database statements from the command line. This is not realistic for many mediawiki installations and limits the usability of the software. An excellent extension exists: Extension:Interwiki but is hidden among a set of similar extensions. See "review" on top of http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Interwiki_extensions While the review helps, a less frustrating solution would be to intergrate the extension into core.
Relevant related bug and pages: bug 22043 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Suggestions_for_extensions_to_be_integrated#Interwiki
I imagine the default case would probably be to not use any interwiki links at all; given also that we can bundle extensions with the distribution, I don't see much reason to integrate more such tools into core itself.
(In reply to comment #2) > I imagine the default case would probably be to not use any interwiki links at > all It would then be logical to move the interwiki functionality from core into the extension (the huge list of defaults as well as the link-modification functionality itself). I am not joking, I think this would be a sensible solution. But of coures, given the legacy situation, adding a special page to give access to the interwiki definition is probably a better way. About bundling: Mediawiki comes bundled with 5 Interwiki extensions, the enhancement is making one a standard case, while still supporting the others.
(In reply to comment #3) > About bundling: Mediawiki comes bundled with 5 Interwiki extensions, the > enhancement is making one a standard case, while still supporting the others. MediaWiki doesn't come bundled with anything. What's being mentioned is the new installer's ability to enable extensions while installing.
This was merged in r45062 back in December 2008 and reverted in r45238. The extension is active now on Wikimedia wikis. I'm closing this WONTFIX. If anything, it could be distributed with the MediaWiki tarballs.
Re-opening this. A blackbox database table is insane. If MediaWiki is going to include an interwiki table, it absolutely should provide a means of viewing and modifying that table.
This is now a MediaWiki bug.
I don't consider this as an easy task for a new contributor but rather complex for that level, hence removing "easy" keyword.
