Talk:Canonical interwiki prefixes

Language issues
I would propose that all primary WMF projects get individual interwiki prefixes as follows: etc, and the same for Wiktionary, Wikisource, etc. Hoof Hearted (talk) 13:46, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
 * wp-en - for English Wikipedia
 * wp-de - for German Wikipedia
 * wp-es - for Spanish Wikipedia
 * Sounds reasonable enough. Or we could use enwiki, dewiki, etc. One issue, though: Special:Interwiki reflects that there already are prefixes for wikipedia in each language. Leucosticte (talk) 14:09, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I would be very wary of using your suggestion of enwiki dewiki, etc. Your suggestion appears sort of 'Wikipedia-centric', and whilst I'm sure no one would question Wikipedia's dominance in the global wiki-scale, not everyone would automatically equate the word 'wiki' to Wikipedia.  I'm sure most global wiki-folks would recognise 'wp' as an abbreviation for Wikipedia though.  Your suggestion would also have difficulties for the other WMF projects - how would it deal with say Wikiversity or Wikivoyage?  I would respectfully propose: Wikiversity - wvers-en, wvers-de, Wikivoyage - wvoy-en, wvoy-de, Wiktionary - wkt-en, wkt-de, Wikiquote - wq-en, wq-de, Wikibooks - wb-en, wb-de, Wikispecies - wsp-en, wsp-de, Wikisource - source-en, source-de, Wikinews - wn-en, wn-de . . . etc, etc.
 * Also, the Special:Interwiki you quote appears to be very unique to this MediaWiki wiki - I've never seen that specific interwiki table (with those identical prefixes) on any other wiki - it appears to be very 'Wikimedia Foundation-centric'. The 'default' interwiki table looks very different.  The interwiki on WikiIndex is very different, yet looks very similar to the vast majority of other MW-based wikis which are listed on WI.
 * Finally, you also need to be careful about what your ultimate goal is. Whilst it is very clear that the norm for all WMF projects is to 'reach out' and link to other wikis, there are many, many other wikis (non-WMF) which are very insular, and do not want to link to other wikis at all, and then there are those which will only link to English Wikipedia and nothing else.  Those latter two groups will probably get a little angry if they are suddenly forced upon with an interwiki table which could potentially have links to over 200,000 other sites - I'm sure many could rightly shout of global enforced spamming!  Have you actually done any 'market research' into the need for this global new interwiki table?  Best regards,  Hoof Hearted (talk) 08:54, 23 November 2012 (UTC)