On 18/08/06, Magnus Manske <magnus.manske(a)web.de> wrote: What instruction text for new articles, exactly? You're welcome to add it yourself, as is anyone. Or do you mean the "this page doesn't exist. click here to create it" type text? As this is exactly Well, I have encountered some opposition to the idea that an article with six pictures should have 30 different language introductions. :) For proper nouns (people & places, mostly), I tend to feel only different scripts are necessary. eg for the Australian city 'Melbourne', there would be at least 40 different articles on it, but 28 of those articles are at exactly "Melbourne". Although if we ever want to supply better quality lang support, it would be best to supply all. Hm. Perhaps better 'hiding' would be better, less annoying at least... cheers Brianna

I'd like to apologise for my German post to everybody. I didn't check the "To:" in my email client and this mailing list is configured to send replies to back to the list -- I didn't intend that and would like to apologise for it. Christian On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:39:50 +0100, Christian Richardt <cr333(a)cam.ac.uk> wrote:

Hi Magnus, vielen Dank für das tolle Tool. Ich hätte da aber noch zwei kleine Vorschläge für "Missing language links". Zum einen wäre ein Zeilenumbruch nach jedem fehlenden Interwiki-Link zum Rauskopieren praktischer - zum anderen wäre ein [edit]-Button neben dem Link zur Seite mit den fehlenden IW-Links eine Kleinigkeit, die die Produktivität trotzdem noch minimal steigern könnte und die Ladezeit und damit die Serverbelastung reduzieren würde. Vielen Dank im Voraus, Flo -- Wie nennt man den Großvater des ägyptischen Sonnengottes? - Opera ----- Original Message ----- From: "Magnus Manske" <magnus.manske(a)web.de> To: "Wikimedia Commons Discussion List" <commons-l(a)wikimedia.org> Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 3:07 PM Subject: [Commons-l] Commons SumItUp

Florian Straub wrote: Done.

Florian Straub wrote: Thanks, both of you :-) It will have that WikiSense tool suggest categories. It's probably not an important function in this context. I'll leave it in for sentimental reasons ;-) Magnus

On 31/08/06, Raimond Spekking <raimond.spekking(a)gmail.com> wrote: This can be achieved via CSS, for individual users. Put this into your monobook.css: .description { display: none; } .en { display: block; } .de { display: block; } This will hide all descriptions by default, then show any English or German. The major problem with this is that the vast majority of text is incorrectly or not at all tagged. This technique works for things tagged like {{en|Explanation or caption}} It won't work for things like {{English}} Explanation or caption or '''en:''' Explanation or caption There is a technique being developed at Meta called "Language select" ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Language_select ), which uses Javascript and CSS, but is also not site-wide. (See that talk page for discussion about using it on Commons) I guess what we actually need is another entry in Special:Preferences along the lines of 'show these languages' on multilingual sites. Because for the interface, you can only set one language, whereas there are many multilingual people who would be interested in having multiple languages shown. There are also administrative types like myself who are interested in seeing all languages, even though I can't read most of them, to notice what kind of coverage we have, which languages are needed, spot obvious vandalism, etc. cheers Brianna