[Foundation-l] Following the conventions: seperating Wikisource

[GerardM]

Hoi,
Indicating what language a text is in using templates is utterly useless
when other uses then reading with eye balls is concerned.

I do agree that small projects are a problem. However your perception of the
problem is a bit narrower than how I see the problem. When you wear all my
hats, you really would want to have one database with a potential to
indicate per article what language the article is in.
Thanks,
   GerardM

On 6/6/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
>
> Though the language for the Devanagari script article was not specified,
> the other example was marked [[Category:Armenian]].  Establishing the
> proper ISO code used to refer to a language is not the sort of thing
> that needs to be discussed by a committee.  Standards already exist.
> Any single committee member should be able to provide that information
> on request, and probably within 24 hours.
>
> In any case I think that the "technical disaster" of having wrongfully
> coded small corpus languages is less troubling than the real disaster of
> small databases that retain long term vandalism because nobody ever
> looks there.
>
> Ec
>
> GerardM wrote:
>
> >Hoi,
> >When you look at the details for the HTML it will tell you that the
> language
> >is English. It is obviously not. Technically all content in
> >Wikisource.orgthat is not English should be marked for the language
> >that it is.
> >
> >Having content marked English while it is in actual fact not English
> means
> >that the meta-data of the page is wrong. Having multiple languages within
> >the same MediaWiki database is technically a disaster. It is not marked
> in
> >any way what language it is. This is in and of itself bad.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >    GerardM
> >
> >On 6/6/07, Yann Forget wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>GerardM a écrit :
> >>
> >>
> >>>Hoi,
> >>>It is exactly to find out if it is an "otherwise accepted language"
> that the
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>language committee wants to make sure that the content is coded in this
> >>>way.. I would not be surprised when all the content in
> wikisource.orgthat
> >>>is NOT English is not coded correctly in the first place.
> >>>Thanks,
> >>>     GerardM
> >>>
> >>>
> >>I don't understand what you want to do here.
> >>Which code are you talking about?
> >>
> >>What can you do about the coding of this?
> >>
> >>
> http://wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%A4%88%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E2%80%8D%E0%A4%AF_%E0%A4%89%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B7%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D
> >>or this?
> >>
> >>
> http://wikisource.org/wiki/%D4%B1%D4%BC%D4%BC%D4%B1%D5%80%D4%BB%D5%91_%D5%82%D5%90%D4%BF%D5%8E%D4%B1%D4%BE
> >>
>
>
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