Forum:CT Archive/Foreign language link issues

=Issue 1= Recently, the German Star Wars wiki, Jedipedia, was moved to Wikia by its founder in violation of their site consensus (and would have been a violation of our own consensus rules as well). A large group of users from Jedipedia formed a new site at jedipedia.net to house the community that had been forcibly displaced. This new site still controls the Twitter account and interlanguage bot from the original Jedipedia.

Basically, all they've lost is a .de domain name and some idiots who were clueless enough to move to Wikia. The situation seems fairly straightforward, but I wanted to have something to point to when Wikia gets pissed at us for fixing it. So, without further ado:

Change German links to Jedipedia.net

 * Darth Culator (Talk) 19:31, June 29, 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) Green Tentacle (Talk) 19:36, June 29, 2011 (UTC)
 * 2) Toprawa and Ralltiir 19:36, June 29, 2011 (UTC)
 * 3) Korsa3 19:38, June 29, 2011 (UTC)
 * 4) Grand Moff Tranner Imperial Department of Military Research.svg (Comlink) 19:41, June 29, 2011 (UTC)
 * 5) Gulomi Jomesh 19:46, June 29, 2011 (UTC)
 * 6)  —Tommy   9281  Wednesday, June 29, 2011, 19:49 UTC 

Discussion
=Issue 2= This leaves the question of how to fix these links. Wikia has told us in no uncertain terms that they do not respect our community's freedom of association. They invoked a nebulous interpretation of their terms of use in reverting an easy fix for this issue. Consequently, this decision remains unfulfilled as well.

There are two obvious fixes for this problem:


 * 1) Remove the articlename and articlename strings from the bottom of every article and replace them with an ==In other languages== section below ==External links== specifically for the French and German links. Prohibit linking to the Wikia-based sites for these languages.
 * 2) *Pros: Removes all links to wikis we have not chosen to associate with. Works with or without Javascript. In no way violates the Wikia terms of use.
 * 3) *Cons: Not as pretty as a sidebar link.
 * 4) Add a second French and German link to the sidebar via Javascript.
 * 5) *Pros: Prettier than an external link section.
 * 6) *Cons: Still provides attention to the sites we have explicitly chosen not associate with. Effectively surrenders to Wikia tyranny. Links could be broken if one of the competing languages moves a page. Won't work if someone has Javascript turned off or if Wikia caching is acting up like it does about 30% of the time. Wikia claims we're allowed to do this now but could easily decide to interpret the exact same terms of use in a completely different way if they don't like the result. Wikia could add javascript code to deliberately break this fix.

So, another vote:

Replace interlanguage links to wrong wikis with external links to right wikis

 * Darth Culator (Talk) 19:31, June 29, 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) Gulomi Jomesh 19:46, June 29, 2011 (UTC)

Add secondary sidebar links

 * 1) Having one section for German and French and another for other languages seems unnecessarily confusing. This method at least keeps them all together. Green Tentacle (Talk) 19:36, June 29, 2011 (UTC)