On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 21:15:24 +0200, Sabine Cretella <sabine_cretella(a)yahoo.it>
wrote:
Looks like:
http://la.wiktionary.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Nogomatch
In action:
http://la.wiktionary.org/wiki/Specialis:Search?search=absentia&go=Ire
Question: Would it make more sense to link to a search on the other
language wikis instead of the article directly?
Hi, I tried this out, but I am not quite sure to understand. You mean
that if I implement the same kind of page the search function
automatically returns the page with the results and the links to the
other wiktionaries above. This could be a solution.
If it helps any, here is the translation of the box one gets when one searches for
"absentia", which does not yet exist in the Latin Wiktionary:
"Wiktionary does not yet have an article about "absentia", trying full text
search.
Do you wish to create a new article "absentia"?
If you look at links to "absentia", maybe you will find out something about this
word.
Maybe there is an article "absentia" in other Wiktionaries:
"absentia" in English | Polish | Dutch | German | French Wiktionary"
And the links, in order:
* to create a new article "absentia"
* view pages that link to "absentia"
*
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/absentia
*
http://pl.wiktionary.org/wiki/absentia
*
http://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/absentia
*
http://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/absentia
*
http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/absentia
I include the link to "what links here" because usually words in Wiktionary are
linked because they are being defined (e.g. in translations lists) or are used to define
something else (in definitions of foreign words).
I do think now it'd be a better idea to link to the "Go" search instead of
the article directly. Especially since users expect search to be case-insensitive and if
e.g. "Absentia" is capitalized on a non-capitalizing wiktionary (if there is a
German word "die Absentia", I suppose) the link to "absentia" will
take them to an empty page, and not tell them that "Absentia" exists. I will
change it tonight.
By the way, is there a list of wiktionaries by size? It might be most productive for the
list of links to be to the five or so largest ones; I'm not sure whether these are
those.
Linking to other search results would be OK, but not
to another search
window to be compiled - so if you think about a page that shows the
different search results on other wiktionaries I think this would be OK,
otherwise I prefer the link how you did it now.
I'm not sure I understand what is being said here. I can link to searches on other
wiktionaries but I don't think I can display the search results all on the same page.
*Muke!
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