Anthere wrote:

If the solution is this one, it should be discussed whether the current english textbook should be moved from http://textbook.wikipedia.org/ to http://en.textbook.wikipedia.org/ .

It would either be http://en.wikibooks.org or http://wikibooks.org/en/.

http://wikibooks.org would be a multilanguage portal.

However, I'm warming to the idea of internally segregating the projects as I explained before, instead of external segregation (subdomain and different MediaWiki installations; just like on Wikipedia). All I really care about is having a clean database, so if language category tags and a user preference to set interface language can do most of what we want, then, IMO, let's plan to do that. But doing that requires brand new changes to MediaWiki, while doing things the old way only requires adding the wiki book functionality (not an absolute requirement before internationalization, but IMO /very/ important).

Hey, I just got a neat idea; language category tags can be used to set a users interface language. So if they visit a module that has a French language tag, then their interface will magically become French. Then when they back out to an English module, their interface automatically becomes English again! User preferences would then be used to override this if the user wants.

This would also be really neat to have on meta.

Oh and this is about internationalization, so it is very appropriate to have this thread on Intlwiki-l. The mailing lists are going to eventually be moved to @wikimedia.org in the near future anyway since we are no longer just about Wikipedia.

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)