List site ids and codes for Commons / special sites in wikidata site link section
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	Sep 24 2013, 8:41 AM

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Right now, the list of site links assumes language + site id and displays the links as such.

This is fine for Wikipedia / Wikivoyage, but more than awkward for Commons and special sites that really are multilingual.

The way we present Commons and special sites needs a bit of improvement. Listing them with site name and site id would be better in those cases.

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After some discussion, the Wikidata team agreed on the following:

There should be one section for all "special" sites on a data item page. "Special" wikis include commons, meta, mediawiki.org, etc.

In that section, the "Language" column should be replaced with a "Project" or "Name" column.

The project name should come from a system message based on the site ID, and should be translatable.

The selector used for picking a target site should also use the project names instead of languages.

The "special" sites could be marked as such by setting the "group" field in their entry in the sites table.

However, the group assigned to each site by the sites table should be the same as the group/family associated with the site via MediaWiki's wiki farm config facility.

As a stop gap, the set of "special" wikis could be defined by a configuration variable used by Wikibase.

Change 85982 had a related patch set uploaded by Tobias Gritschacher:
(bug 54492) Display a custom sitename for specific site groups

Change 85986 had a related patch set uploaded by Tobias Gritschacher:
Add msg for wm-commons sitename shown in Wikidata sitelinks-table

Change 85986 merged by jenkins-bot:
Add msg for wm-commons sitename shown in Wikidata sitelinks-table

Change 85982 merged by jenkins-bot:
(bug 54492) Display a custom sitename for specific site groups