On Mon, 2005-14-11 at 08:32 -0800, Evan Martin wrote:
What problem is this change trying to fix?
It's not trying to solve any problem. There's a standard mechanism in
HTML for specifying an alternate version of a document in another
language; theoretically using this standard mechanism would help some
MediaWiki-ignorant bots and spiders to find alternate language versions
and "understand" the relationship between them.
I'm not sure I see the
pros outweighing the cons...
I can see that. The pros are theoretical; the cons are more concrete.
I'm of the opinion that if you follow Web standards, Good Things Happen
(TM), but I don't have any proof that that's the case in this instance.
~Evan
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