lcrocker(a)nupedia.com wrote:
I'm not yet convinced that it would be worth
the effort, though. I'm more inclined to think that the
international wikis should be more independent and encapsulated.
On the de: wikipedia, they're adding en: links like crazy. eo: and pl:
are also very popular ;)
If someone made a link from de: to en:, I (and many other Germans, I'm
sure) would very much like for a link from en: to de: to be added
automatically, if there isn't one already.
Yes, you don't like the software altering article text, but it wouldn't
be altering, it would be the special case "appending", which should be
safe enough.
Also, we'd like to automatically list all the pages that don't link to
en:, for example; either to insert the link, or to write the en:
counterpart, based on the German article.
By the way, there's about a dozen or so links in the German "links"
table that start with "en:"...
(SELECT bl_to FROM brokenlinks WHERE bl_to LIKE "en:%")
I like the idea
of links for categories ('biography', 'country',
'mathematical theorem', 'book', 'movie', ...) by the way.
We discussed tings like that early on, and initially rejcted it
as an attempt to categorize articles in a non-wiki way; we wanted
different organization schemes to evolve out of normal wiki
editing and linking, rather than imposing order from the outside.
As far as I remember, the categories we discussed were more like
"Biology" or "Chemistry". What I suggest is a more technical thing,
like
"biography", "year", "day", "city",
"book", "movie", etc. There could
also be tags like "plant" and "animal", because these are easy to
tell.
Wether an article belongs to "Chemistry", "Biology",
"Biochemistry",
"Genetics" or "Molecular Biology" is *way* harder to tell.
The obvious way (to me;) here is a new namespace, one that "doesn't
exist", but is generated on-the-fly, like "special:". I suggest
"type:".
Magnus