I personally think the interwiki wiki is the best idea... it's been suggested before.
Mark skype: node.ue 2009/2/7 Charlotte Webb <[email protected]>: > On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 7:24 AM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: >> Or working WYSIWYG that hides the syntax escape from the casual editor. > > AFAIKWYSIWYGINWAF. David do you think we can we get a WYSIWYG editor > that doesn't leave a bunch of unduly bloated and redundant code for > the next user who tries to edit manually? > > Anyone who's ever tried to use Inkscape to fix a spelling error in an > SVG map label or used PageMill for just about anything (then wondered > where the hell "text-decoration:none; font-weight:normal;" came from > or how the table attributes changed from "width:200px;" to > "width:199.99729px;" when you know you didn't accidentally click the > corner of it) will share my skepticism. > > I think the best bet for these sites might be to require an explicit > "interwiki:" prefix, that is to use (and train interwiki updater bots > to use) [[interwiki:en:foo]] to link to [[foo]] on the english site, > with the assumption that [[en:foo]] could potentially be the correct > way to spell some word native to whichever language(s) Mark is talking > about. > > Obviously this would have to generalize so that the long-form syntax > would be optional on other sites, but allow certain languages to opt > out of the short form interwiki syntax (and thus opt out of automatic > redirection or bad-title error or whatever would otherwise happen when > you try to edit a local page with this title). > > Or we could come up with something even more esoteric which requires > all interwiki links to use a template. > > Or create a completely new wiki (or possibly a sub-section of meta or > commons) to track the equivalency relationships of articles on various > sites, so that no human or bot needs to edit 125 different pages to > ensure that every other project knows that the 126th translation of > [[George W. Bush]] has been posted to the Old Church Slavonic "cu:" > Wikipedia (which hasn't happened yet but they might as well be the > next). > > —C.W. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikipedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
