On 10/7/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
- Semantics: speakers of language A may draw a clear distinction
between the concepts denoted by terms AX and AY, which may translate to language B as BX and BY, but be used interchangeably in the latter language.
Yes, I alluded to that possibility. But towns and people, in particular, strike me as pretty clear cut. It's unusual to see a person only form part of an article rather than the whole thing. Though it does happen, such as with minor candidates for minor elections.
I was thinking more of abstract terms, which may for whatever cultural reasons, be difficult to properly match.
In fact, if there was a way to transclude from another wiki, the problem is solved I think.
{{Commons:iw:Horse-ripping}} could simply return a list of all the interwiki links for that topic. We might need to be slightly smarter about handling interwiki self links (ie, from en to en).
If this is to be a cross-wiki transclusion, as an ungraceful hack, something like <div style="<includeonly>display:none;</includeonly>"> wrapped around the interwiki list would prevent the self-link from appearing (bold-faced) at the bottom of the article area.
—C.W.