User:Chris Brown/Interwiki practice

I am starting this sub-page article so that I can relate my findings without having to include the whole of the findings when discussing InterWiki policy.

The issue of interwiki policy arose when I added interwiki (internal) links to Infosecpedia within the main text of two Wikipedia articles (information security and confidentiality).

External vs Interwiki

 * External - links of the form [URL]] and [URL description], examples:
 * - looks like
 * InterWiki - looks like InterWiki
 * Interwiki - links of the form Code:Pagename, examples:
 * InterWiki - looks like InterWiki
 * InterWiki - looks like InterWiki
 * InterWiki page on MeatBall - looks like InterWiki page on MeatBall

Wikified text vs Source note

 * Wikified text - words or phrases that themselves are some sort link, examples:
 * InterWiki - looks like InterWiki
 * InterWiki - looks like InterWiki
 * Source note - numbered pointers to the source of material or fact, examples:
 * - looks like

General background

 * InterWiki - The whole article
 * InterWiki - discussion of general interwiki concept
 * InterMap - discussion of mechanism that Wikipedia implements through its interwiki table

Use of interwiki

 * How_to_link_to_Wikimedia_projects - The article says, in part: Wikipedia encourages links to sister projects and interlanguage links when possible. However, links to sister projects should not be used excessively.
 * Help:Interwiki_linking - How to interwiki link, some policies are implied or loosely stated
 * Links - links to Wikipedia and Meta articles on the subject

Use of interwiki links in redirects

 * Soft_redirect - The special case of interwiki redirects. The first paragraph states, in part: Normal or "hard" redirects are undesirable ... because they cannot be undone without hand-crafting the correct URL and there are infinite loop security considerations.
 * Help:Redirect

Use of external links

 * Guide_to_writing_better_articles - The last paragraph of the section Standard appendicies states, in part: Don't use external links where we'll want Wikipedia links. Don't put in links ... to external URLs linking text that we will want articles on Wikipedia about. Put external links in an "External links" section at the end of the article. For example, if you're writing an article about Descartes and you know of a great article about rationalism online, don't link the word "rationalism" to that article. Simply wikify the word rationalism, and add an "External links" section with an external link to the source (perhaps in both articles).

Furthur reading

 * Tip_of_the_day_archive

Active discussions

 * Village_pump_(policy)
 * Village_pump_(policy)

Past discussions

 * Talk:Loop_quantum_gravity
 * Village_pump/May_2003_archive - a question on InterWiki use with no answer
 * Village_pump/January_2004_archive_4 - User:Angela says, in part: Interwiki redirects are generally considered a bad thing.

Reference

 * Interwiki map