On Wednesday, 2nd August 2006 at 11:06:57 (GMT +0200),
Filip Maljkovic wrote:
> I've been under the impression (from what
you're saying, it's
> wrong) that interwiki and interlanguage links are not the same
> thing, or anyway that interwiki links are something larger than
> interlanguage links. I thought interwiki dealt with links between
> various wikis rather than just between language versions of a page
> within the same wiki... I'll study the help page to bring us back
> on track.
>
Well, in Wikimedia terminology, interlanguage
links refer to links
between the same project, but in different languages
That's exactly what we're looking for. For example, there's a text
in language X on our webpage, and students get the assignment
to translate that webpage into languages A, B, and C. The four
webpages should then be mutually linked through the "In other
languages" section. Nothing more is needed.
Interwiki links are, in theory, links between any
two projects,
whether they are in the same language or not.
That's why we thought the InterWiki help page wasn't relevant for us,
as we don't intend to link two projects but merely need to create
various language versions of pages within a single project.
By that logic, interlanguage links are a subset
of interwiki links,
but they don't really differ. [...] But basically, neither interwiki
nor interlanguage links deal with language versions of a page within
the same wiki - then it's not interwiki. It's intrawiki, if you
catch my drift. I hope I clarified it a bit.
Thank you very much. The terminology is certainly capable of confusing
anyone (especially if they're primarily language teachers like myself).
I'll get to studying the InterWiki help page at the weekend in the hope
we can then activate the "interlanguage intrawiki" links on our pages. ;-)
The way I see it, you could achieve what you want by making false
interwiki links for every needed language. That is, make interwiki links
to that very same website of yours, so the links will show on the left
and still connect to pages in your wiki. I'd do it like that. Then,
you'd have links like [[fr:Chat]] and [[de:Katze]] in your article
[[Cat]], but both would link to pages in your wiki. Furthermore, you
could separate the content with namespaces because there may be clashes
with different languages having the same words/phrases. I'd go with
English:Cat, French:Chat etc.
HTH
Filip