Hi I want to raise the issue that the inter-language link situation at the moment is a big mess: Please have a look at Rob Hooft's 5 pages listing articles on the english wikipedia that do not have inter-language links to corresponding articles in other languages. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Rob_Hooft/page1 (1 through 5). There are literally thousands of such links missing. Multiply this by roughly two, to factor in the missing links on all the other languages (English wikipedia has roughly half the total number of articles), and you can see the magnitude of the problem. The correct alphabetical ordering of links is also necessary, and adds more work. Now, there are a couple of solutions to this problem (please add your own): 1) Just continue as we have been doing. Additionally asking people to make an effort to add inter-language links. Pro: doesn't require any mediawiki changes Con: wastes a _massive_ amount of man-hours that needless to say could be better employed 2) Deploy the robot that Rob wrote (and is using on the Dutch wikipedia) on all wikipedias. To my knowledge this robot searches for missing links and automatically adds those. Pro: no mediawiki changes necessary Con: at least one person per language is needed to run/administer the robot 3) Create a unified inter-language link field (similar to what I have proposed for pictures/images). This would have a list of languages in which a particular article is available. Pro: No need for robot traffic that eats up man-hours, bandwidth, cpu, ram, disc usage. No massive waste of man-hours due to just continuing as we are. Con: mediawiki development of such a feature. Another obvious problem is that the field relating to each article will have to have a unique identifier which is referrenced from each different language version of that article. Two possible approaches: a) just settle on the english title, I know this is language-ism and will piss a bunch of people off b) unique identifier is a number. The problem here is obvious: If you write a new article you will 'have' to check that the article has not been written in a different language already and therefore already has a unique number. Actually, now that I think about it option (b) sounds pretty stupid. Thoughts? Best, Sascha Noyes aka snoyes -- Please encrypt all email. Public key available from www.pantropy.net/snoyes.asc