Magnus Manske wrote:
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.
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.
The automatic linking would seem to have one big problem: translation.
Depending on the machine translation of article title could give
frighteningly unpredictable results. At the English word "law" my
English/German dictionary gives "Gesetz". "Recht", "Jura",
and
"Jurisprudenz" as possible translations. A native German speaking human
may have no problem sorting this out, but a machine has only a 25%
chance of getting it right.
A possible solution might be have the source language term as an article
title in the target language Wikipedia, perhaps titled in the form
[[Topic (source language)]] to avoid inadvertant ambiguation. The
source language titled article would be nothing more than a redirect to
the correctly titled article in the target language, or (in the absence
of such an article to a single article perhaps named [[Articles to be
translated from (source language)]]. where all of these would be listed.
All this of course depends on whether the idea is technically
implementable in the first place.
Eclecticology