[Wikipedia-l] adding a font on a wiki

[Mark Williamson]

I personally think the interwiki wiki is the best idea... it's been
suggested before.

Mark

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2009/2/7 Charlotte Webb <charlottethewebb at gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 7:24 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Or working WYSIWYG that hides the syntax escape from the casual editor.
>
> AFAIKWYSIWYGINWAF. David do you think we can we get a WYSIWYG editor
> that doesn't leave a bunch of unduly bloated and redundant code for
> the next user who tries to edit manually?
>
> Anyone who's ever tried to use Inkscape to fix a spelling error in an
> SVG map label or used PageMill for just about anything (then wondered
> where the hell "text-decoration:none; font-weight:normal;" came from
> or how the table attributes changed from "width:200px;" to
> "width:199.99729px;" when you know you didn't accidentally click the
> corner of it) will share my skepticism.
>
> I think the best bet for these sites might be to require an explicit
> "interwiki:" prefix, that is to use (and train interwiki updater bots
> to use) [[interwiki:en:foo]] to link to [[foo]] on the english site,
> with the assumption that [[en:foo]] could potentially be the correct
> way to spell some word native to whichever language(s) Mark is talking
> about.
>
> Obviously this would have to generalize so that the long-form syntax
> would be optional on other sites, but allow certain languages to opt
> out of the short form interwiki syntax (and thus opt out of automatic
> redirection or bad-title error or whatever would otherwise happen when
> you try to edit a local page with this title).
>
> Or we could come up with something even more esoteric which requires
> all interwiki links to use a template.
>
> Or create a completely new wiki (or possibly a sub-section of meta or
> commons) to track the equivalency relationships of articles on various
> sites, so that no human or bot needs to edit 125 different pages to
> ensure that every other project knows that the 126th translation of
> [[George W. Bush]] has been posted to the Old Church Slavonic "cu:"
> Wikipedia (which hasn't happened yet but they might as well be the
> next).
>
> —C.W.
>
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