Last modified: 2014-02-12 23:39:56 UTC
With the introduction of wikidata, there now will be many links in the "global sites" format: "ruwiki + Title". From my IRC conversation, there are plans to migrate interwiki table to the sites table. As a stopgap measure, and to prevent any accidental conflicts in any namespace/WMF site, please add all globally defined sites such as xxwiki/xxsource/... (not sure which word is used for most of them) to the interwiki table. This will instantly allow all links in the form [[enwiki:Page]] to work on all WMF sites without any ambiguities, and might help a number of javascript gadgets with Wikidata integration.
With the resolution of bug 7496 this becomes less of an issue, since to link to any site you can now safely use proj:lang:PageName. JavaScript gadgets and the like simply need a small translation table { wiki: 'w', wiktionary: 'wikt', ... }. Namespace name conflicts should not be occurring with these short prefixes (if they are, please file a bug). Of course, this does not take into account special/chapter wikis, which are a mess - but for Wikidata this is not relevant. To some extent this is a duplicate of the original request in bug 48035, but I'm going to leave this bug open for now.
