[WikiEN-l] "refactoring" signatures

Sun Jun 18 10:02:12 UTC 2006

Wildrick Steele wrote:
> On 15/06/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>Possible solution (if it's absolutely critical that color and colour
>>both have top level non-redirected articles): Put all the content in
>>{{colr}} and transclude it. If you include a heading near the top and
>>people use section editing, they won't even know!
> 
> Reasons include that [[color]] contains, or at least should contain,
> different etymologies, pronunciations, derived terms, related terms, etc.
> than [[colour]]. Another argument is that [[color]] also lists the Latin,
> Spanish, etc. words, which [[colour]] doesn't of course.

Hmm, that does rather ruin the redirect idea.  Silly of me not to figure 
that out myself.  (Of course, I don't really find the Wiktionary 
approach of putting homographs -- in different languages, even -- on the 
same page very useful, but I'm not going to try changing _that_.)

The template approach proposed by Steve could still work, though.  One 
could have both [[color]] and [[colour]] transclude {{en-color-colour}}.

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Ilmari Karonen