On Mon, 22 Nov, Ævar Arnfjörð wrote:
[...] our decades and centuries
are "off" by one year from "conventional" systems, we therefore
cannot
link to them since the two articles would not describe the same
period.
Far be it from me to comment on a policy of the Icelandic Wikipedia,
but wouldn't it make more sense just to link to the nearly-equivalent
articles *anyway*, especially for the Centuries? I mean, if the
article at the [[en:...]] link for [[is:20. öldin]] contains
information about 1900, and none about 2000, but has the other 99
years in common, is that not better than no link at all?
Like I say, apologies if this is something that has been discussed to
death on the Icelandic wiki, but as a general principle, I think we
are always going to have imperfect matches like this in the
'translation' system - articles which contain stubs for multiple
topics, or just differences in what is deemed part of the "same
topic". Indeed, the very nature of translation will lead to these:
apparently, if I understood correctly, the English "penguin" has two
translations in French, so an article in English titled "penguin" will
never have a French link that is 100% equivalent. By leaving out such
links completely, we lose the integration that the interwiki links are
there to provide.
--
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]