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 :)