On Wednesday, 2nd August 2006 at 11:06:57 (GMT +0200), Filip Maljkovic wrote:
I've been under the impression (from what you're saying, it's wrong) that interwiki and interlanguage links are not the same thing, or anyway that interwiki links are something larger than interlanguage links. I thought interwiki dealt with links between various wikis rather than just between language versions of a page within the same wiki... I'll study the help page to bring us back on track.
Well, in Wikimedia terminology, interlanguage links refer to links between the same project, but in different languages
That's exactly what we're looking for. For example, there's a text in language X on our webpage, and students get the assignment to translate that webpage into languages A, B, and C. The four webpages should then be mutually linked through the "In other languages" section. Nothing more is needed.
Interwiki links are, in theory, links between any two projects, whether they are in the same language or not.
That's why we thought the InterWiki help page wasn't relevant for us, as we don't intend to link two projects but merely need to create various language versions of pages within a single project.
By that logic, interlanguage links are a subset of interwiki links, but they don't really differ. [...] But basically, neither interwiki nor interlanguage links deal with language versions of a page within the same wiki - then it's not interwiki. It's intrawiki, if you catch my drift. I hope I clarified it a bit.
Thank you very much. The terminology is certainly capable of confusing anyone (especially if they're primarily language teachers like myself). I'll get to studying the InterWiki help page at the weekend in the hope we can then activate the "interlanguage intrawiki" links on our pages. ;-)