Well we dont want to scare the developers off, thats
for sure. Otherwise theres no point in beating around
the bush.
-S-
Steve Vertigo wrote:
>TARQ: I have an additional suggestion.
>It would sometimes be useful to be able to make a
>link to another
>language, without it being 'magic'.
>For example, on the Wikipedia:Embassy page, we
have
to resort
of full
URLS hidden with pipes.
Perhaps the syntax [[:fr:pagename]] could be used?
So you want language articles in the body... I have
thought about that recently. That would mean, (if
we
wanted to continue in the trend treating language
links as separate from the article body ) The
answer
would be either to make language tags different,
depending on where they want to go -- so for the
body,
only [[ru:article]], and in the header
[[rus:article]]
-- the other idea would go along with what people
have
been thinking for a while -- which would be to
deal
with inter-language tags in the headers as metadata
--
a separate dataspace separate from the article (
but
attached to it). It would then be editable in a
separate field from the article body (with an [edit
meta] link on a page (for sysops only?). And then
of
course It would be nice to have a common user
space
and combined recent changes. And jeez after all my
blabberin I find that this is old hat =
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughts_on_language_integration
Talk about taking a simple idea and making it
complicated!
It is sometimes useful to link to other languages
from talk pages or
Wikipedia: pages. That is all. No need to change
anything else at this
time :)
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